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To: wideawake

Isn’t the European Parliament impotent in front of the respective national governments of the constituent EU states?

One-equal-vote-per-state-regardless-of-its-size-or-population-policy that you suggested might make a greater mess than the current situation has, with tiny city-states having as much power and influence as the big ones.

Anyway, Europe has always been its own worst enemy, so I don’t know if history is going to come back full circle now. Isn’t it around when this time, last century, WW-I was in the plans?

:^)


63 posted on 06/21/2007 12:18:49 PM PDT by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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To: CarrotAndStick
Isn’t the European Parliament impotent in front of the respective national governments of the constituent EU states?

It is less so with each passing year.

One-equal-vote-per-state-regardless-of-its-size-or-population-policy that you suggested might make a greater mess than the current situation has, with tiny city-states having as much power and influence as the big ones.

Similar arguments could be made by Californians about Vermont, with a population not much larger than Long Beach, having 2 Senators.

Anyway, Europe has always been its own worst enemy, so I don’t know if history is going to come back full circle now. Isn’t it around when this time, last century, WW-I was in the plans?

On the German side, yes.

72 posted on 06/21/2007 12:31:19 PM PDT by wideawake
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