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October 29th, 2006
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| Tribuni Angusticlavii | Post; America joining the EUWhat do you all think, I think it would be a good thing. With a name change of course to something more correct like Alantic union or something. It would boost our economy and open up new markets for us products.
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October 29th, 2006
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October 29th, 2006
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| Tribunus Laticlavius | America is already pretty close to Europe. Besides, I don't think France would let us in. 
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October 29th, 2006
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| Tribunus Laticlavius | On the Contrary, the US is France's largest customer. I dont see why Europe would do it though. The EU was designed in order to compete against US and Asian market domination.
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October 30th, 2006
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| Milforum's Bouncer | Bad idea... almost on par with gasoline subsidies. 
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October 30th, 2006
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| Tribuni Angusticlavii | Hahahaha riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight The whole point of the EU is to become competative with the US and its size....Then again England isnt joing up, which is smart....
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October 30th, 2006
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Your mistaken on the last part. The UK is a founding member of the EU. What the UK hasn't done is adopt the Euro (yet). This is due to the fact that their economy is so strong, they dont want to accept a weaker currency. Should the pound start to lose its value... Despite this, I will also point out that many shops in the UK (espically the big retailers) do accept payment in Euros in addition to the Pound Sterling. In other words you can go to Herrods of London and pay in Euros. | |
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October 30th, 2006
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| Tribunus Laticlavius | The EU was formed to rival the United States as the world's only superpower. (Ironically that role will soon be filled by China and the EU will remain a second rate power because of their lack of total unity.) The US and EU may see eye to eye on some issues but the United States will never join the European Union, the EU has been passing law after law to hinder US trade with Europe, our leaders won't soon forget that and may not be so quick to forgive the EU for what we consider to be slights against us. The best example? The EU has banned certain American companies from selling their products (in this case make-up) because the EU has (fabricated) evidence that these products can cause cancer. Yet everywhere you go in Europe you see people smoking in public.
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October 30th, 2006
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| Tribunus Laticlavius | Damien Thats true, but the US has done exactly the same thing, perhaps you remember the stink about the steel tarifs? When Bush (mainly to curry votes in West Virginia) imposed taxes or Foreign steel. The US and EU are competitors and each will do whatever it takes to keep the other out of its market. As for Tobacco, I happen to work for a major tobacco company so I can tell you for a fact thats about to change. Next year Laws are about to go into effect that will ban smoking in Public places in France, The Netherlands, and the UK. The rest of Western Europe will soon follow suit. Needless to say, while its good for the country, its a disaster for our business... |
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October 30th, 2006
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| Tribuni Angusticlavii | I dont know if I would go as far to say that China will be a superpower anytime soon...While they are making great strides they still have a lot of work to do and with them being one of the most poluted countries in the world they have a lot of cleaning up to do as well... I mean how are they going to sustain a superpower state without any clean water to drink???? BTW the UK wasnt a founding member they didnt join until 1973 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/h..._expansion.stm Last edited by Donkey; October 30th, 2006 at 18:11. |
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