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Originally Posted by Sparrow
Is it not a similar sentiment to that in Denmark when they voted No in the European Referundum? Wariness of a federal Europe.
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It's not quite the same situation. In Europe you have a number of soverign countries, many who have a hundreds of years long history of wars between them - and alliances with other countries as well. And some countries are younger federations, while other are thousand years old. It's really mixed. It's not like a number of states as in USA - and I know some states are older than others etc.
(edit: ) I would be very surprised if Europe could unite to be like USA in the next, say 50 years. We are too unlike, we share wars as well as brothership. EU is mostly about trade and production and how to make this work between countries.
On the other hand, you are right, a federal Europe are relatively widely distrusted - it is by some seen as detriment to rule on country level - personally I'm not completely in disagreement in all cases. But for USA couldn't health care be taken care of at state level? Why isn't it? To me, it seems such a bonus to everyone, individual and state/country level alike.