Still, while the EU is also an attempt to play in the same heavy weight league like the US or China, it is not a unit where you need force for secession.

As demonstrated, EU member states are free to leave and all regional independence movements I've seen so far (Scotland, Catalonia, Lega Nort,...) expressively want to stay inside the EU.

Finally I'm not aware of any EU atrocities.

There is a tendency in the British press to compare the EU with the 3rd Reich or the USSR, and so I can't leave this uncommented.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)
Je suis Charlie!

In reply to Re^12: Patience is a Monk Virtue by LanX
in thread Patience is a Monk Virtue by marinersk

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