Where In The World...

[cha05e90]

Well.. if this poll is about geographical location, then UK and Scandinavia could well be with Europe. I don't know why some of you think EU here...

Of course - geographically - UK and scandinavia are part of Europe. As well as the left part of Russia and the northern continental part of Turkey. Gosh. And - by the way - the usual "EU bashing" is getting really boring. Even the brits work with the € since more than 20 years, everything you do, everything you sell, the whole british economy is based on the € since middle/end of the 80's. This has indeed nothing to do with that more or less funny coloured paper you use as money in the streets.

I really hope the EU fails - we are better off as separate countries looking after our own affairs.

I won't - and, we won't. In the end this would mean some kind of national state'ism from pre-World-War-II. Our more or less high economic outcome in the EU (not "Europe") is based on the "EWG" from the late 50's/early 60's. Since then we are not "separate" anymore. Funny enough during the cold war Breshnew called the EWG/EU the "fourth reich" - they were well aware of the united economical (not political) strength of an associated western europe.

[cha05e90]

You know what the best thing would have been ?
Combine the UK, Netherlands, Belgium, France and Germany together and then having that started with the Euro.
That would have been a winning combination, all large airports and shipping harbours together, way better then with all those eastern countries and south European countries in it.

I can't argue in this point, 'cos I feel it might be very near to my own opinion... ;-) But it is, as it is. Going backwards would be very, very dirty, so I still assume, that we shouldn't bother with "what could have been" but try to make the best of the situation. I'm still convinced that the EWG (and the following more political directed EU) is *the* masterplan for peace in Europe, especially for the smaller countries - even if a lot of strange things come out of Brussels...but, hey, our national governments aren't better, really.. :-)