Europeans Want a Stronger and Larger EU – Big majorities across Europe support common policies on defense, foreign policy and trade

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1. some redditor: wAiT TiLL theY haVe tO diScuSS deTaiLs

2. Merge the 27 irrelevant foreign ministries into one big State Department. And the same for the Armed Forces. Everything else is a waste of money. If you can’t defend yourself and can’t project power on the world stage, you simply don’t have sovereignty.

3. I strongly disagree with my goverment. They are incompetent (edit: AF) The veto they get let them seem more important than they are so they are against it, although our interests are similar or if not the same as the industries from different EU states.

4. That’s good news. After that, we need to see in detail what it means to answer yes to the question. Also, it doesn’t mean that people will vote consistently with their yes.

5. Defence should become a full EU competence. States are fundamentally unfit to protect European citizens.

6. So what are politicians waiting for?

7. Then they need to start voting accordingly.

   How do they think that the EU will have common policies if they don’t support the parties who want that through Treaty Reform?

   You want common policies and you vote for Eurosceptic parties, nationalist parties, or some EPP and SocDem parties who are perfectly happy with the status quo and resists change?

8. We need a directly elected President 🇪🇺 to enact the collective will of EU citizens and represent them on the world stage. A full European Executive with more powers to the European Parliament. Local competences down to the regions, but defence, security, trade etc. up to the European level.

9. Eisenhower thought Europe could do it and told them so. High time…

10. And then proceed to elect far right/nationalist parties that want to do exactly the opposite of that. 😂

    Let’s not forget putting in place NATO chiefs who also think the opposite.

11. Common Trump foreign policy W