L’UE è 110 milioni di persone in più di USA, UE e un PIL Simmilar, cosa ci impedisce di diventare una superpotenza indipendente in un periodo di 10-20 anni? (Domanda seria)
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di UnusualParadise
L’UE è 110 milioni di persone in più di USA, UE e un PIL Simmilar, cosa ci impedisce di diventare una superpotenza indipendente in un periodo di 10-20 anni? (Domanda seria)
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di UnusualParadise
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Usa is 1 country , EU is many countries.
The people. Europeans doesn’t want to federalize.
32498 different languages, cultures and everything in between, everyone trying to pull crap to themselves, artificial borders and country-specific legislation (like goods taxes, etc), random customs checks at inner borders, and so on.
Too many countries, too many agendas, too many politicians.
We don’t speak the same language… that’s literally the only answer…
shortsightedness & nationalism
The EU has the GDP of a superpower but the decision-making speed of a homeowners’ association. Between political infighting, slow growth, an aging population, and reliance on US security, it’s more of a ‘regulatory superpower’ than a geopolitical one. Unless it figures out an actual defense policy, it’ll keep punching below its weight while the US and China run the show.
National interests!
It would be almost impossible to turn a type of confederation into a federal country. Tax and spend in particular would be very hard to unify beyond what we have. Yes the USA has many local variations but they all sign up for the basics of income tax
It would also present difficulties re foreign policy and the military.
EU is not a country thats the problem, at least Con-Federation would help
A lack of qualified majority voting, and an abundance of “lets blame the EU/the big countries”.
Not being a centralized country
The financial austerity promoted by north/Central European nations
Austro-Hungary and Yugoslavia were a good examples why multinational countries don’t work.
Like what in common has guy who lives in Sicily and a guy who lives in Lapland?
The EU doesn’t have a similar GDP. It has a GDP two thirds that of the US.
Cultural divide that doesn’t exist in other superpowers
Old population and declining population that is only going to get worse over time. Economic decline will come with this problem.
Unwilling to give up quality of life for the sake of significantly raising the defence budget
Too many people don’t want it
Plenty of other reasons
I think the biggest problem is getting every country to agree on things. Everyone has their own agenda and I don’t expect that is going to change anytime soon.
Less bureaucracy and more nukes.
We lack a true EU government and the various national governments have too much power.
One of the biggest problems I see in the EU is that naive faith that close economic ties and trade will make none EU countries more friendly and open to us.
An equally naive belief is that we have to play according to rules that other countries do not follow.
Europe does not need to become a superpower. We have no ambition to project power all over the world. We do no need 20 aircraft cariers.
We need to spend our defence budget in europa. Stop with buying american airplanes. Stimulate european developement.
Let US evacuate all their basises in Europe, Ramstein, Incirlic, etc. Close down their early-warning radar stations in Poland, close the Rotterdam, Antwerp and Hamburg ports for US military cargo ships and warships.
We do not need the american regious/fasists politics.
Europe has significant older population than the USA, less natural resources and less territory. To become a superpower the EU would have to turn around all the negative birth rate among other issues.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_median_age#/media/File:Median_age_2024_cia_the_world_factbook.png](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_median_age#/media/File:Median_age_2024_cia_the_world_factbook.png)
Social media manipulation that backs anti eu, pro russian parties.
After the last speech in EU from couch fuker JD, I think EU has two options, rise to the challenge or die.
because the Union is not united.
Europe lacks a cohesive vision of what a nation is, and lacks the drive/need to create it. Also, there are many small minded countries with leaders who would rather get rich off backroom deals with Putin and China and thus prevent the discussion from ever gaining momentum. Meanwhile their populations suffer.
It is a collection of bickering nation-states that mostly hate each other. That should be obvious by now. And the EU government is just a machine filled with people eager to pass laws banning anything and everything.
We are not one country, that’s pretty much the reason summarized.
I don’t like my neighbour [random country nr. 1], because I’m from [random country nr. 2].
history and a lack of common language and identity.
why tf does a country or region need to be a superpower?
Because people dont want a European Superstate ruled from Brussels by people they didnt elect.
Mostly the fact that we are a bunch of independent countries and not one big nation
EU and Europe is not the same.
Too many low effort posts on this sub