For all you EU - optimists ....?

Question

What do you think, after EU expands on entire continent, and it will even if it takes 100 years (excluding Russia ) what will be it's fate. Does it has a slightest chance on expanding on Asia/Africa, of course if the the potential candidates wold we stable enough?

Answer 1

Well, i think if you look at the UN as an example of a true 'worldwide' organisation, you can see the difficulties in actually achieving this. Certainly, the EU has achieved remarkable cooperation to this point, but whether it's possible for a global organisation to exist, and then sustain itself remains to be seen. Perhaps it is possible...i certaintly hope so! I think there's a need to move away from the notion of state sovereignty first however.

Answer 2

EU is already facing problems with even some western european nations like France who want to reclaim soveriegnty!!!

Answer 3

Since you said in the question you were thinking 100 years out, then yes, it's absolutely viable to believe that the EU will expand.  Despite having all kinds of problems with integration, the EU has also become a bastien for a cooperative political lifestyle.  

When the US first integrated, it was just as difficult for us to make it work.  Eventually, our union become strong, and the EU will continue to get stronger, surely.  As people in Colorado still most think of themselves as American, Spanish and Romanian young people will eventually think of themselves as primarily European.  Many of them already do.

Try looking up some of the proposed super-expansions that the EU has thought up for far into the future.  Imagine Cape Verde or Ukraine in the EU.  In 20 years?  Maybe not.  In 100 years?  In 100 years, Europe will have been destroyed like the rest of the world in a global war, or we will have figured out how to get along, and the EU will be one of many super-national organizations.

The EU is choosing the integration policy rather than that of war (unlike the US).  It seems strange to us, but to them, it's what they know they have to do to make it to the next 100 years.

Can Russia make it into the EU?  Hey, a lot has happened there in the past 20 years...imagine how much more can happen in another 20.  We're going to see huge changes we can't even imagine.  Why do we forget so quickly that Russia just now became a democracy (if you consider it that).  Look how far we've all come in the last 100 years...imagine how much further we can go in another.

In 100 years, I think Irish people will be able to feel more kinship to Egyptians than they do now.  There's a shared history there, we're all people, we've all had long, hard histories of war and death, famine, and disease.  All of want it to stop, but it takes working together.  At least the EU is attempting to push it hard, to try to make the impossible actually happen.  60 years ago, Polish Jews were being gassed by German n***s...now they sit in the same council chambers.

Yes, it's hard, yes the road is long...if the EU can accomplish its goals, it will have to expand...someday Armenia will be in the EU, maybe Israel, Palestine, the sky's the limit...we've got 100 years to make it work.

Answer 4

How can Asia&Africa join EU?

Answer 5

As the name suggests, we're talking about European union here...In my opinion the EU comprehends European countries and ( maybe, why not ? ) even Russia, but I have serious doubts about expending on African continent...

Answer 6

The problem of the EU is that they are getting many poor coutries involde with a high amount of crime. They would never get into asia but there will be a larger balance of powere. Cause the EU is ruled by France and Germany.