>>Maybe I just don't know enough about it but I have never perceived the EU that way. I thought it was basically an economic alliance. (And in that sense, it will be a formidable force). If they indeed have aspirations of political and military unity as well I think those will be considerably harder to achieve given the diversity among European nations.
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>Once you have a unified economy there's no way back. After all military power fe is just an extension of economic power. As i said just a matter of time.


Does this represent a shift in the EU's aims or have I just never understood them correctly?