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comradebillyboy

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1. The EU needs a stronger central government to

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Wed Jan 15, 2025, 04:28 PM

Jan 15

accomplish their economic goals in my opinion. The analogy that springs to mind for me was the US under the Articles of Confederation vs the US under the 1789 Constitution. The loose confederation of basically independent little nation states just didn't work very well.

Establishing federal supremacy was essential to a properly function national government. Although the US government is much more decentralized than individual European national governments our form of federalism works a lot better than the EU. I suspect the EU is kept so powerless because most EU members don't want total German/French domination of the EU.

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