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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.




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


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




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