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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam
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The United States is a federal state (or unified government).
The EU is a confederation of sovereign nations.
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correct that have been all the states in US too before 1788 - they just made a joint venture what started 1776 and this joint venture is still NOT ONE COUNTRY til today.
in ONE country it would not be possible to have death penalty in one part and not in the other. if you look at the enourmous list of laws in US what are only existing in ONE state you can not tell me the america is ONE country yet.
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The EU Parliament issues directives to the sovereign nations-states of the EU and those nation-states enact legislation that will enforce that directive within each nations sovereign jurisdiction.
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up to a point. the individual countries in the EU have still MANY invidiual relulatories what are in some case senseful and in other cases not.
but there are many rules in the EU contract what EVERY country have to follow - no matter if that is in their souvereign jurisdication different. that was one of the main
reasons for the existance of the EU do act TOGETHER and not AGIANST eah other.
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When the US Congress legislates a law and the President enacts it by signing -- all 50 states are bound by that law. In the USA the states are compelled to obey laws as written by the Federal government.
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so that measn that the US gouverment have not done it´s job because after so many hundrests of years states have so many different laws that you can not call it country.
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All US Americans carry US Passports not like in the EU -- there is no EU passport only rights guaranteed by national consent of confederation. You are a citizen of France, Germany, etc ... first
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that not 100% true - the passport of EVERY single EU country says FIRST:
EUROPEAN UNION and THAN the country.
remember that the EU is in fact not even 20 years old and still have to find a way how everybody´s interests are fitting together. that is a hard and long way and not possible to change in one generation.
look in the south of united states - til TODAY they wish slavery back and respect their own flag over the US-flag.
living together or doing things together can NEVER work if all sites want to have it their way. it is a process of conclusions. some of them will hurt and some of them will help.
we all know that EU is not perfect and will never be - but it is the only chance to survive in a global world and give people the prosperity they hope for.
and NO it will not be prosperity for all of them unfortuantely - but the social net will take care the weak and unhealthy and they will spend back what we give to them and this is the circle of money and base of prosperity.
unfortuantely still many europeans live in the past. they beleive that "before was all better" even when it is not true.
especially the younger people who never have seen bad times don´t know the difference between than and now. they do not know that it was just a fraction of people who could afford to go on holidays every year - the majority could not.
they can not remember a time when someone was treaten like a king when he had a phone or a TV at home. and they can not imagine how long someone had to work for buying it.
and these are only examples what I can remember from my own life. if you go back further you will end up at a time when people were thrown out from the city when they were sick and they let them die there.
you come back to a time when someone who had just more power as another could easily kill someone and don´t get sued for it. you get back to a time were just the strongest and not the smartest one made the rules.
EU is nothing for egoists - it is an idea for teamplayers. and this is what we need to survive on this planet.
i give you just ONE littel example what i was reading just a few minutes ago:
the EU is thinking to sue poland because they are planning to destory the last natural parks there. poland have signed the contract for natural resorts in the EU and this place what they want to make industrial is one of them.
i think it is GREAT that we have this instrumenst to do something when a country is doing such a crime.
we can´t stop brazil from killing their forests (and taking the air to breathe from EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN THE WORLD) - only a strong union can stop that because this union is big and important enough.
the problems our world is facing today are VERY different and MUCH bigger as the problems we had in the past. not one country can resolve this problems alone. if that would be the right way for evolution we still would live alone with wife and kids in a cave. the success of human being is the way we learned to live together and accept compromises.