Hi, > The E.U. is a forced (yes, it really is!) consolidation of vastly > dissimilar peoples, and those very different attitudes will eventually > rust out the bottom of the entire melting pot... > You're trying to put folks together who have histories going back a > thousand years! People whose memories are incredibly long, and a large > number of which absolutely cannot and _will_ not forget a slight (a > national disrespect) , let alone actual wars and such.
We want the EU to work precisely because we have long memories. -- Cheers, Bob
