Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "So this is what Africa has been doing" video.

  1. As it currently stands, the EU can only expend throughout Europe, but as we know, those lines are quite blurry. There isn't any reason why the EU couldn't expand outside of Europe and have it based on shared values and things like that, but the EU has enough on it's plate in Europe with many countries wanting to join it, if the EU does decide to expand outside of Europe, I don't see it happening until at least 2050 at least. When you look at countries like Turkey, only a small percent of the country is in Europe and yet it qualifies as being a country that could join the EU, the only reason it's not happened yet is because the country is finding it hard to do the changes and reforms needed to join and we see that with other countries that have joined the EU, some do the reforms needed to join in a short time whereas others take decades before they are ready. Basically, it's not the EU that decide when you can join, even thought they have the final say, it's actually the country that wants to join that has the real say and the quicker they do the changes and reforms needed, the sooner they can join.
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  2. I don't think outside meddling is the issue in Africa, the problem is that there are too many countries in Africa, pulling in all direction, many of which are dictatorships which don't care about a union or it's own people and only care about their own power. As for western democracy, there is no real clear path of which is best but the general principle of democracy, is to allow the people to decide how the country is run, I'll imagine that rule is universal all over the world as I suspect everyone on the planet wants a stake in how their own country and life is run. Question is, what kind of democracy is best, direct democracy? or representative democracy? That question is still being debated in western democracies.
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