Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "A Federal Europe? The Party Trying to Unite Europe Further - TLDR News" video.

  1. Considering how integrated the EU countries already are, I can well see in time when it becomes something like a federal Europe or something like that, especially for Euro Zone countries. I suspect a big reason it will happen not because we want it as such but because of the changing realities in the world, if we in Europe want to stay relevant with other big powers like the US and China, we're going to have to band together in more areas, otherwise they will just push us aside which could become a threat to the European social, political and economic model. Basically, I don't think we have much choice if we still want to get our own way, but the real question is, what form of government and system would it be? As for Volt, don't know much about them but going on many of their policies, they seem quite progressive in a lot of areas and yes, many of these problems would be much better served at an EU level, migrants being one of them because the real problem is with that is that you get members complaining to each other in how many each should take and some taking too many whiles others not doing enough, a pan-European policy would help a lot on that.
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  2.  @ryltair  I wouldn't say we are easy pickings but we're not as strong as we could be, the EU offers it's members a lot of protection in many areas like trade where others like Australia, the UK now are easy pickings when dealing with the likes of the US. Economically, the EU countries are strong but politically, we're too divided with too many different voices and that makes us weaker than we could be. In the end, just like the Steal and Coal Community, the EEC and now EU came about with the aim of making European countries more competitive with the US, the same thing will likely happen on the political side to keep us in the game with the US and China, the alternative is to be pushed aside.
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  3.  @ll-ui6tc  Most would love to be like the Roman Empire, in fact many countries are modelled on them including the US but most have not been around long enough to know how successful they are.
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