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Opinion on Lisbon Treaty?

What is your opinion on a European superstate?
Do you think this European State will undermine our relations with UK, Spain, etc?
Do you think this European nation thats developing will be good for both Western European countries and Eastern bloc countries as well?
Do you think countries that were part of the Soviet Union and countries like Turkey & Balkan states would be added to EU and if so will there be lots of difficulties?
that link does not bring up a previous question, it just brings up the main page of Y!A
ahh thanks a lot for answer, I am aware of the difficulties as far as the national identity and separatist parties forming up, but it didn’t even come to me what would happen to the neutral countries. Thanks a lot for the insight I just wish more people had an opinion on these matters.

An EU superstate is not in the interests of the citizenry of the EU countries and is and ideologues dream which is not going to happen because it has no popular support.
The European Union will not turn into a single nation like the US. There are at present 27 separate nations with at least 32 separate identifiable cultures, if not more.

The UK, Spain and Belgium are already experiencing cultural drift whereby the constituent countries of these nations are schisming, e.g. Scottish and Catalonian independence parties are becoming stronger.

So a unified superstate is not on the cards.

The Balkan countries, Turkey, Ukraine and Belarus will most likely join the EU. But this is decades off as both the existing EU countries’ economies will have to balance a reach even broad equity with one another before the like of Turkey and Ukraine will become members. Also, Turkey and the other nations have to go through a lot of reforms before membership is possible.

As for your main question, my opinion on the Lisbon Treaty, I am concerned with two items, The Mutual Defence Clause, which will effect Irish, Finnish, Austrian and Swedish neutrality, and secondly is the raising of the weakening of the ability for smaller EU members from affect or evening blocking decisions that are not in their best interests, e.g. Harmonised Tax across the Union.

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