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Why do countries like Britain still have their own Parliament, then? I can see if they were just provinces of the European Union, that would be great. But, if that were the case, when will the world maps be changed so Europe is all one colour and labelled European Union?
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Doug
Doug Mehus
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Re:When does North America get its own regional TL
by dmehus
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What's the point?
Scotland recently get its on Parliament.
All German Bundesländer (states) have their own Parliaments.
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EU Member States aren't just provinces... The analogies being drawn between the US, NAFTA and so forth aren't quite appropriate. The EU may well develop into a US-style federation, but that isn't likely to happen for some time.
As it is (to my understanding), Member State governments still have a far greater amount of autonomy in many policy areas than the individual states of the US have.
Regarding removing ccTLDs from the Member States - that would be a little harsh, and would be likely to cause all sorts of panic in many countries (mostly Britain, Sweden, etc) regarding loss of sovereignty, etc.
On a similar note, I'm surprised that some sporting bodies don't call for the EU to have, for example, only one team in the World Cup; or for the EU to have only one representative on the WTO/UN, etc. (as they currently have 16 - 15 Member States + 1 EU rep).
Anyway, the overriding consideration is that the nature of the EU isn't stable enough quite yet to make these kind of decisions.
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