well that might happen over time but it will take many many many years. There are in fact very few areas of government in which a member nation still has sole autorithy, EU has something to say about almost everything. Also the part of government that is under total EU control is also very very small (but growing non the less)
The problem with the EU is that there are to many people who just care for their own country. I mean the EU is a step to unionize the world this will tak e along time of course (if it will work ever) but countries will need to become more open, I am not saying that Germany is ( I belive we are just in there because we think we will benefit from it economically). But the Idea´is a good one....the Eu could become a power respected by everyone that cvan grant a good life to all its members (Poland too clovie ✅ )....and all that has happened in the last fifty years brings us a little closer to that goal....thats why I think it is sad that we didn't get a "constitution" although it might have a lot of flaws it would have been a step in the right direction.
Poland is better off because of it and Europe in General I think a lot of country's are forgetting that... Take Holland for instance
60% of our economy comes from exports.. 50% of this comes from Europe, we pay about 400 euro's a citizen to the European union far more then any other country (4 times more then the second I heard, but i'm not to sure about that) still we get about € 180,- back from Brussels for each citizen. And then there are the laws that allow easier trade less taxes open borders and buying stuff together and the Netherlands is actually saving over a 1000 euro's a person.
But do we look at that? No... We have to look at how much we pay not at how much we give back.... I'm really getting annoyed by it all.
Anyways all those people that are against the constitution, nobody likes it. Nobody agrees with it all, nobody can. There are a lot of things in there that you should disagree with and a lot you should agree with. In the end however when looking at the future accepting this treaty (thats basically what the constitution is) is in the best interest of us all.
I do hope politicians will see these no votes on the referenda to finally start explaining how much GOOD the EU does for its members.
If they would have started a decent campaign about it I think both countries would have voted yes.
Sometimes politics is like marketting you have to sell your idea to the public, something the EU and the UN do far too little.
ofcourse we'll all have a better live, but by countries like poland being in the EU, the EU (mostly western europe) can dictate a few rules over there, that will help our own economy.
How any Belgian can be against the EU is totally lost by me. the EU provides us with millions and millions of income each year. If the EU were to be dismantled thousands of people in Belgium would lose their job,
Brussel-Halle-Vilvoorde and DHL would have been peanuts compared to that major crisis.
Originally posted by wuk es't
What has the EU done for us?????
Read my post, I imagine the situation in Belgium is roughly the same...
Not to mention that if Europe can become more unified it will be more powerful in the world which will give it a better position in the future, both politicly and economicly. Europe working together like its now and will in the future makes it easier to fight crime stop terrorism and all that shit that we couldn't do if we had to go threw 2 million laws