DBWI: EU

I was reading in the paper the other day about the South American Union planning some sort of united currency in the next few decades which really got me thinking; what if there were a European Union?
Some sort of economic and political union between the countries of Europe much as the Latins enjoy?
Could such a system even work out in Europe? How coudl we get to that situation and what impact would it have? How would things develop in such a world?
 
I was reading in the paper the other day about the South American Union planning some sort of united currency in the next few decades which really got me thinking; what if there were a European Union?
Some sort of economic and political union between the countries of Europe much as the Latins enjoy?
Could such a system even work out in Europe? How coudl we get to that situation and what impact would it have? How would things develop in such a world?

Extremly to almost ASB level... the European are so disunited, even in then 'great states'(here germany have 1871 frontiers at east and Eltass-lotrigen as a second belgium with luxemburg) are internally so disunited, in france several region are diferent, and not to mention Deutchland..., and russia... that is a political term(the tsar is like the britsh kind), with territory in two continent. not truly 'european'

here with the common history of both Iberican(Spanish and portugesse) colonies and several culturas similatires but diference, make here all possible, even with Brazil, because both side learn the respective language(Spanish and portugese)

but if the EU sucess.. they will be Ultrapower, even more powerful than the USA or the new rising china... more if they add the United Kingdom..
 

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It came closer than you might think. After the end of the Third Great War in 1943, as we all know, the United States invested a lot of money into rebuilding Europe through the Field Plan. Many American economists, (Cheynes, Pilsudsky, etc.), thought that to ensure the end to war in Europe they needed to impose a drastic structural change in the form of international economic integrations.

As it happened, there wasn't enough will in New Philadelphia to push this through, and the European governments, while they were happy enough to take the loans, didn't want any meddling in their economic affairs. And as we Europeans are happy to attest, the Multilateral Disarmament Plan did a perfectly good job on its own of stopping Europe going to war yet again.

After the Great Colombo-Brazilian War however, the integrationist ideas of Cheynes and Pilsudsky fell upon more fertile ground. The rest, as they say, is history, the continent saw its markets integrated and within a generation, the SAEC had all but wiped out the prospect of war.
 
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