> The EU
> always was, and still is, a bunch of antagonistic powers with no set
> agenda
Yeah, but y'all have something to work with: 2,500 pages of the acquis communautaire, the European Parliament, powerful trade unions, powerful public mass media, the EU social charter, and the European Investment Bank.
Here in the US, we have a nightmarish imperial state which excels at only two things -- spending 55% of tax revenues on genocidal neocolonial wars, and jailing millions of adults in the world's biggest gulag.
-- DRR