Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "Europe's Total Power Vacuum: Who Could Take Over?" video.
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That's where the real problem is but the EU needs reforms and to be given more powers in key areas for it to be effective.
The problem we're actually seeing in Europe isn't the EU's fault, it's the members that are pulling in different directions whiles always being worried about domestic issues, something the EU wouldn't have to worry about if it had the powers to deal with the situation.
What we are actually seeing in Europe is why we need more EU, not less, to speak with one voice in key areas like the military, forign policy and energy matters, until we Europeans learn that, we're very likely going to go into decline, pushed aside by the likes of the US and China.
The simple truth is, the members of the EU are too small to really matter on the world stage and even then, they are all pulling in different directions on many things, in other words, EU countries need to start pooling their resources together a lot more if they want to protect their interest and I think the best way to go around that is with Euro Zone countries.
Forget the eastern European countries, they are not ready for that level of integration and that foot dragging is bringing us all down and longer term that's likely going to damage living standards, our political, economic and social interest which will impact living standards in a negative way.
The fact is, if we Europeans want to stand up to the likes of the US, Russia, China, we're going to have to band together and not argue over such petty things like we keep doing, the alternative is decline.
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The domestic issue is a clear indicator on why the EU needs to be given more power, let the members rule in their own countries without having to worry about the military and forign policy which pooling the resources through the EU would make it a lot more effective for the EU and it's members.
If the EU had more powers in key areas, it wouldn't have to worry about domestic issues unless it's widespread over a lot of its members but most of those issues will be managed by the countries themselves.
This is where the real problem is in Europe, people complain that the EU or its members are not doing enough but in the case of the EU, it's not really got the powers to do much and in the case of the members, when domestic issues rise, governments start to look inwards to their own problems, mainly out of survival instinct of the next election.
If we want Europeans to be more bold and to do a lot more, we're very likely going to have to empower the EU to allow it to look after our interest better, especially on military, forign policy and energy matters, the alternative is what we are seeing now with each country pulling in different directions and being much weaker for it.
As for the likes of Poland, Denmark and others, these are too small to really have much of an impact overall and it's still got the same issue I said above about them pulling in all directions, the real problem in the EU is not having a single voice in many key areas and until that changes, EU countries are always going to be weaker and pulling in all directions compared to the US and this is why I think key EU countries in the Euro Zone really should be looking at more integration, because they are being held back by other countries that don't want to integrate and that is doing a lot of harm to all the EU members as well as the EU.
The EU has the economic might like the US but are really bad on the political side of things and until we stand banding together and stop arguing over petty things, European standing in the world is going to decline in favour of the US, China and other world powers, now let's see how bad things have to go before the penny drops.
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