Unclear: does he mean the update to Age of Empires 4 or the re-release of Age of Empires 2?
Guy has always wanted a United States of Europe, reiterated in this article in all but name.
Remove nations individual vetos and integrated military and resources EU wide, instead of individual countries having their own.
It totally makes sense if you want the EU to become a federal country, but it just seem like many EU nations want to lose their individually, military and certainly not their veto.
An ever closer EU is Guys wish.
This was one of the core reasons many Britons choose to vote to leave, so the UK wasn’t absorbed into the inevitable United States of Europe.
Whenever this comes up I always wonder – will the Netherlands ever be happy sending money to southern Europe forever?
One day we will come for you, Ursula and the others to evaluate and weigh your deeds.
While the issues he brings up are real problems, I fear that with the current mindset a lot of Europeans have about European community (that is to say how can they can profit the most out of it, while sacrificing the least to others) the solution might prove far more disastrous then the current status que
He is right. Hopefully progress can be made in several areas, the energy union seems like the most obvious thing to do. Defense would be nice but it’s very hard to do in practice because of entrenched national interests. We need a grand bargain
The only solution is to create the kind of unified Europe that Nietzsche once envisioned. It’s not a Europe of petty nation-states, but it’s not a Europe of unified nihilism either.
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> unfit for emerging ‘new age of empires’
Unclear: does he mean the update to Age of Empires 4 or the re-release of Age of Empires 2?
Guy has always wanted a United States of Europe, reiterated in this article in all but name.
Remove nations individual vetos and integrated military and resources EU wide, instead of individual countries having their own.
It totally makes sense if you want the EU to become a federal country, but it just seem like many EU nations want to lose their individually, military and certainly not their veto.
An ever closer EU is Guys wish.
This was one of the core reasons many Britons choose to vote to leave, so the UK wasn’t absorbed into the inevitable United States of Europe.
Whenever this comes up I always wonder – will the Netherlands ever be happy sending money to southern Europe forever?
One day we will come for you, Ursula and the others to evaluate and weigh your deeds.
While the issues he brings up are real problems, I fear that with the current mindset a lot of Europeans have about European community (that is to say how can they can profit the most out of it, while sacrificing the least to others) the solution might prove far more disastrous then the current status que
He is right. Hopefully progress can be made in several areas, the energy union seems like the most obvious thing to do. Defense would be nice but it’s very hard to do in practice because of entrenched national interests. We need a grand bargain
The only solution is to create the kind of unified Europe that Nietzsche once envisioned. It’s not a Europe of petty nation-states, but it’s not a Europe of unified nihilism either.