True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)
Ernest
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« on: August 19, 2004, 06:48:12 PM » |
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Without at least the UK or France on board, there is no way that the US would see enough potential gain from this to want to do it. France never had the potential interest. By the time France had accepted the fact that it could not maintain its colonial empire, it had already committed itself to idea of a European union, not an Atlantic one. A unified US/Commonwealth might have been a possibility as it would not have had by and large language problems. However the US political system with its explicit seperation of powers and the Commonealth's parlimentary politics don't make for an easy merger of the two systems, even with the complication of European royalty Had the UK either rejected or been rejected for inclusion in the EEC in the 70's, it is possible that instead of NAFTA we would have NAFTA (North Atlantic Free Trade Area) which would include the current NAFTA countries, the UK, some or all of Scandanavian countries (at a minimum Iceland and Norway), the former British Carribbean colonies, and maybe Ireland.
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