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[mglz]

If the EU is sued by itself and needs to pay a fine, does that fine count as income and does that need to be factored into the fine? This might be the first case of an infinite payment.

[creddit → mglz]

It wouldn't be infinite, actually: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_series#Sum

[simonbw → mglz]

Even if that were the case, the payment wouldn't be infinite. 1% + 1% of 1% + 1% of 1% of 1% ... doesn't converge to infinity, it converges to 1.0101010101...%.

[greatersuccess → mglz]

The European Union is not its member states.

Let me put it another way: the European Union is not like the federal government in the US; it's mainly an economic union.

Or another way: European countries are independent, not states in a federation, and the European Union is a separate entity.

[azernik → greatersuccess]

Or yet another way - even in the US system the federal government can fine the states.

[tomrod → greatersuccess]

Yet. I could imagine, though difficult, federating being really good for the EU.