>>>>Could you please explain how one can a have an independent foreign policy while having a common currency ?
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>>>Could you please explain how citizens of a nation can have different opinions while having a common currency?
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>>I sincerely hope your not serious. Even your local budget is controlled by the EU....
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>Ought all who use a certain currency stick to the same opinion on every issue? The only issue they have agreed upon for sure is that they'll use that currency. And of course it has many implications. But a minister of foreign affairs???
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>In 2007 some eastern goverment decided to use violence in ending a terrorist action. Less than one hour later a socalled 'European minister of foreign affairs' was quoted in the media. He condemned that government action. My first thought was "Huh? Since when do we have a foreign minster of the EU?" and another thought was "I don't agree and I think the Dutch minister of foreign affairs won't agree either".

Are you translating from Dutch or was that expression in English? In English, especially since I have a US-centric view of the world and don't thing of the EU as a political entity, my first reaction to 'European minister of foreign affairs' is "Minister of Foreign Affairs for a European country"