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Originally Posted by Watser?
Yeah, me too. It sucked a bit at first with prices rising.
As for the EU being on its way to a federal system, definitely not. If the constitution had been approved, maybe, though I doubt even that. As it is now, the EU is still very much a loose confederation of independent states and I don't see that changing in the foreseeable future. Not all EU countries use the euro anyway.
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Give it another fifty years. The US started out as a loose federation. What happens is that eventually the central government gains more taxing power. It then uses that money from taxes to lure states into to giving up control to the central government in exchange for money. Eventually the branches of each state government becomes a branch of the federal government, following the same rules and administering the same national programs.