EU: Superstate or not?

[C0ckney]

did anyone else find that snapcase post puke inducing?

'[the EU is] activly deregulatory'

tell that to any british business and let me know what the reply is

[HershOstropoler]

I knew that the opposite stereotype would come up too.

[BeBMan]

I see, EU threads become increasingly popular here now

[Combat Ingrid]

Originally posted by Buck Birdseed
If you read swedish you might be interested in the organisation I'm currently working with: http://www.vansterforemu.se/

I didn't know there was any such organization

[Dr Strangelove]

LOOK! UP In THE SKY! It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's supersta.......no wait, it's an American F-15.

[CerberusIV]

Getting back to where this started, is the EU a superstate? No.

Reason - a state is generally defined as a political entity with control over its foreign and defence policies. Those areas still (largely) rest with the national governments within the EU and will continue to do so under the new constitution.

Will the EU become a superstate? Probably.

The world is an increasingly small place with competition for resources. The economic and political muscle of a larger grouping compared to an individual state makes it more likely that europe's citizens (aka voters) will get a proportionately larger share of those resources than, say, people in africa. The present situation isn't yet bad enough to get people to vote for a more centralised, unified EU but it will become so.

The present levels of expenditure on "socialist" policies are beginning to come to an end. The pensions crisis in many EU countries, although largely manufactured in the UK case, highlights the increasing costs due to an ageing population and the doubts about how long these policies can be supported by the various national governments.

The CAP will be dead within a decade simply because fewer and fewer EU member states, especially the newer ones, are going to get any real benefit from it compared to the cost. The whole GM versus organic issue will drive this faster to its conclusion.

[Sandman]

I hope for a humble, internationalist, unmilitarist EU, not a half-hearted parody of the US. As for socialism, well, the EU is capitalist to the core, and that's unlikely to change.