European Union Parliament And Council
Posted in EU Info on 10/06/2010 11:23 pm by admin
European Union and the American Government?
So I’ve been looking into how both systems govern (mainly into the Parliament, Commission, and the Council).
Can someone make some interesting comparisons/contrasts between the two?
Currently, The EU is roughly as politically evolved as the United States was during the period of the Articles of Confederation.
During the period of the Articles, every American state was Sovereign, each state controlled its currency, military and commerce. There was a weak central government which was paralyzed by the need to be inclusive of all (or almost all) of the states to act.
This is the current system of the EU. What the EU needs is to study the American Constitution and attempt a new European Federal Model.
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