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EU Floats Canada Becoming the Bloc's First 'Associate Member'

83 points · 170 comments · helsinkiandrew

  1. nutjob2 · · focus · HN ↗
    Between the US and China, the EU is the future, but they need to federalize then leverage that to implement a top notch military and economy.

    Carney can see this and wants a piece of the action. The question is if the EU can escape its parochial myopia and see it.

    Hopefully Russia will do something even stupider and precipitate the existential crisis that the EU desperately needs to get off its ass.

    1. iLoveOncall · · focus · HN ↗
      > they need to federalize

      "Shit Americans say"

      The EU is NOTHING like the US. The difference between each member is the same as the difference between the US and Mexico, not like the difference between California and Utah.

      It's utter ignorance to suggest that the EU could one day become a single country.

      1. nutjob2 · · focus · HN ↗
        You've obviously not a (patriotic) European. You also don't understand that Europeans are more similar to each other than they are to the rest of the world. Ask one how many views they share with Americans, Asians or Africans.

        I am European first and foremost, I have an ethnic nationality which is secondary and almost irrelevant. In my mind Euorpe is actual a large collection of regions, which hold more meaning for inhabitants than nation states. But we all love our European brethren no matter who they are.

        1. iLoveOncall · · focus · HN ↗
          This is complete nonsense and absolutely no European considers themself European first and their own country's nationality second. You're neither European, nor American, nor Asian or African or anything else, you're clearly a bot.
          1. bryanlarsen · · focus · HN ↗
            Somebody with the username "nutjob2" probably chose the username because he has opinions outside the Overton window.

            But in my experience there definitely are Europeans with that view. WW2 left some deep impressions about the dangers of nationalism, especially in Germany. That led some to consider themselves Europeans first.

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