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SPD in Germany want United States of Europe - bullet - 12-07-2017 09:16 PM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/with-pitch-for-united-states-of-europe-german-center-left-opts-to-open-talks-with-merkel/2017/12/07/d52a12ac-db72-11e7-a241-0848315642d0_story.html?utm_term=.5335270fb2f6
Seems kind of out of touch with what is going on in Europe.
“...I want a new constitutional treaty to establish the United States of Europe,” Schulz said.
The treaty, he said, would go into effect by 2025. European Union members that don’t accept the new agreement would be forced to leave the bloc, which currently stands at 28 members and is due to shrink to 27 with Britain’s scheduled exit in 2019.
The proposal by the former speaker of the European parliament represents a far more dramatic vision of European integration than any he had pitched during the German election campaign.
It is also sharply at odds with the cautious approach Merkel has taken toward reform at a time when skepticism about the European project is rampant across the continent and voters show little appetite for a vastly more powerful Brussels...."
SPD in Germany want United States of Europe - EverRespect - 12-07-2017 09:30 PM
Any half-wit saw this coming... the 5th reich will end about as well as the 3rd.
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RE: SPD in Germany want United States of Europe - shere khan - 12-07-2017 09:51 PM
(12-07-2017 09:30 PM)EverRespect Wrote: Any half-wit saw this coming... the 5th reich will end about as well as the 3rd.
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Smh. I had this very discussion with two liberal friends gushing over the wonders of the EU twenty years ago.
The Visegrad countries and Russia need a wall
RE: SPD in Germany want United States of Europe - banker - 12-07-2017 10:16 PM
What is it about the Germans?
RE: SPD in Germany want United States of Europe - shere khan - 12-07-2017 10:34 PM
(12-07-2017 10:16 PM)banker Wrote: What is it about the Germans?Anthropologists tried to figure it out during wwii. Not sure they ever came up with an answer.
RE: SPD in Germany want United States of Europe - Native Georgian - 12-07-2017 11:42 PM
1. Very thankful that the UK is getting out while it still can.
2. At least now, the unification proponents are being explicit and clear about the true objective: One country with one central government. For the past several decades, they have been very slippery/evasive on that point, when they weren’t simply outright-lying.
3. It’s not just the Germans. Things could never have gotten to this point if the academic/media/political class in a lot of other countries weren’t just as supportive.