Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "Is the European Union a Country?" video.

In the case of these two countries, they got op-outs that they don't need to join but I suspect Sweden will join at some point and even the UK if they stay in the EU but that is up for debate. As for the other none Euro countries, they have to join at some point and the irony is, the more that do join, that will put more pressure on the ones that have not joined to join at some point.
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Is the EU a country, on the surface, no it's not, it's got a lot of the building blocks that make a country and I can well imaging in the long run it going that way but for now it's not, it's a union of cooperative members for the benefit of all of them. In the longer run, will the EU become a country? that hard to say but what we do know is there is external pressures from powers like the US, China, Russia that likely will push Europeans to work more closely together so they can protect their economic and political interest, it's actually one of the main reasons the EU exist, not out of want but out of need in protecting our interesting in a rapidly changing world.
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