> When the domestic and foreign policy interests of France, Germany, and
> the UK are subordinated to the "European state" - ie. to the EU President
> and Council of Ministers and the European Parliament - in the same way the
> state interests of New York, California, and Texas are subject to the
> dictates of the US Congress and the executive branch
That subordination happens every day via the acquis communautaire, the European Court of Justice, EU trading laws, environmental laws, etc. That said, the EU is not a carbon copy of the US, and its integration process is light-years away from US-style state ratification -- far more complex, far more totalizing, far more transformative. More to the point, the EU's demographic, economic and cultural heft means it can pretty much do what it wants, free from US pressure. I'm not here to sing the praises of Eurocapital - it has paid staff to do that - but the EU really is a superpower, and this is a basic reality which should be acknowledged.
-- DRR