Clueless Americans React To "The European Union - Summary On A Map"
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No, in the Schengen Area you do not need to show your passport. There is literally only a sign "Welcome in Spain" when you cross the Border from France. And yes freedom of movement means that you can work, live and move to any country in the EU without needing something like a green card or a working permit.
And this obviously aids gangs and terrorists, no end.
Oh yes you do. They're not allowed to check at the border. But if you travel from France to Italy they'll check them on the train.
Sadly. That’s how all them migrants are entering Europe illegally. They can move around undetected
EXACTLY!@@neuralwarp
@@neuralwarp I use the train a lot to travel in the EU and my passport was never checked in the train between EU-countries.
The European Union is a collection of countries. The USA, is one country. It’s not the same
Sorry, but no.
The US is made up of states, who have their own government (House and Senate), their own Supreme Court and legal system, their own leaders (Governors), some even have their own armies, they all set their own tax rates, they all have their own flags.
The USA is a union of states, that work together. It's also why you'll hear of State rights, now and again.
It's just that we look on the USA as one country, and have done for a long time, we tend not to see the state level of things.
@@maximushaughton2404It’s totally different, America is America, Europe isn’t one country, would you like your laws made by a bunch of unelected bureaucrats that you don’t even know, that aren’t even from your country? Lots of countries want to turn their back on the EU and rule themselves, as any self respecting country does. Look what a mess the EU has made from immigration for a start.
@@jemmajames6719You talk nonsense and have no idea
@@jemmajames6719 benefits of the EU are vast in comparison to the cons, at least for the less developed countries. Of course there's going to be some chaos, there's 27 countries here for God's sake, but it would be far worse if there wasn't an EU. Most people who oppose it have a concrete issue which they don't like, for some it's immigration, for others it's the currency or laws of bureaucrats far away, well the bureaucrats in my country are far worse, even though some of them are elected.
USA is a federation, the EU is somewhere between a confederation, federation and an intergovernmental polity.
Understanding European political history through the medium of the Eurovision Song Contest is hilarious
But basically correct, if you think about it.
@@rosetoren3881 Sure like Australia and Israel are involed 😀The only similarity is that they have Euro in the name
@@kevins2961 Well, English is not my mother tongue and I have a hard time identifying your sentence. Is that sarcasm, ignorance of history or how can I interpret it? Give me a clue, thank you.
@@rosetoren3881 The smiley should help. The only similarity between the song contest and the Union is superificial and not worth taking seriously in any way.
You may as well compare it to the Champions League football. Any how I am not going to get into a debate, if you think it is a serious comparison then good for you! Have a good day. 😀
@@kevins2961 Oh, no problem, nobody has to learn things that broaden their horizons. After all, I'm not your teacher who has obviously missed out on things. Their problem and yours. Have a nice day.
There's no need to show your passport or ID or whatever in the Schengen Area. There's literally no border fences, walls or checkpoints. It's just a normal road and the only way of knowing that you've just entered another country is a sign saying "Now entering Spain" or whatever other country. It's literally just like crossing state lines in the US.
They check passports on the trains.
@@neuralwarpi went by train to many countries within Schengen, but was never asked for an ID or passport.
@@neuralwarp They do on the Euroline when you go to the UK, because that's not Schengen. THey don't when you go from Belgium to Germany by ICE. (and definitely not if you take the slow train from Liege to Aachen)
@@neuralwarpIt varies. You don't necessarily need a passport either. A national ID card and in some cases a driver's license suffice
They have drawn the borders around every individual: you have to show an ID (passport) if asked for by an official.
The EU is the most succesful peace project in history. "When goods pass borders, amies don’t"
And now the leaders of the EU is beyond corrupt and warhungry
As this is a 3-year old video, some things have changed... Croatia is now part of the Eurozone and the Schengen area.
and the UK isn't anymore☺
@@irisbenjaminsen yeah great isn't it, we don't have to listen to whinging PoMs in the EU anymore.
Ohhhh wait now their whinging about being punished by the EU or something something unicorns 😂
@@RazorMouth It's brilliant. The EU as a whole is far better off without members who want all of benefits without properly participating. They can whinge all they want, they chose to leave, so now their opinions are no longer relevant to the EU and they don't have any say over how it's run.
@CiaraOSullivan1990 what about Hungary and sometimes Poland
@@elvangulley3210those are way different situations, but most people agree that either the EU gets more power to bind laws and punish eay harder infringement of them or that those countries that decide to purposely stop following the rules and laws that they signed for years should leave
I'm British and missed a lot of history classes at school too. So what is this ''United States of America'' that you speak of?
You may know it as "British America" or the "British West Indies" if you are a vampire ancient enough.
The British did not understand the purpose of the EU (peace project) from the start. There were solely economic reasons why the British wanted to join the EU. Then they were in, but when they were told that Brexit would bring them economic benefits, they left the EU.
the Scottish people and nation voted to remian baw bag.
That's not even true, for anyone to think Brexit had anything to do with finance means they don't understand what the UK voting to leave the EU was all about, which basically came down to pure and simple racism on the whole, it was the them coming over here stealing our jobs brigade who got the vote edged in their favour, sadly. Many of us did, and still do appreciate the beauty of the EU and why we should have never left.
Read your history. Was Hitler nicht vermachte, hat Angela gemacht. I AM danish, and I am out of this political teater.
@@helleeckert2522And what would that be?
It's understandable considering Britain was one of the few countries in the EU that didn't have its institutions totally destroyed after the war. Its understandable that brits don't want to abandon their institutions to a new EU superstate. France on the other hand on its 5th Republic has no issue with outsourcing its government to Brussels
This is what the European Union means for me as an "ordinary" citizen. I'm French, and have been living in French-speaking Belgium for 23 years, when I just moved to a new job, no visa or work permit required. I live in Eastern Belgium, a 20-30 minute drive to the borders with both Luxembourg and Germany, and the French border is only an hour drive away; I routinely commute and shop in all four countries, no border or customs checks, same currency. I even happen not to really pay attention to which country I'm in - until I have to switch from French to German.
On the more political side, the EU is far from perfect, it can certainly be improved and simplified in the way it functions. I am in favor of reforming EU institutions. However, the EU is already successful in the most important achievement in the history of our old European nations, PEACE. Countries that in the past wasted centuries and millions human lives fighting each other, to the point of almost destroying each other (ex. France and Germany), now live in lasting peace and friendship, to the point that wars between them is simply unthinkable. This achievement alone justifies the EU's existence.
Ridiculous
@@jemmajames6719what's ridiculous? Elaborate.
@@jasonwall5012 , agreed. What's ridiculous?
The roaming smses also remind you that you've crossed a border :D
As French myself i would be way more critic. EU is an undemocratic organisation who jailed us in a freemarket, destroying our energy sector, industry and agriculture. It cost us billions euro per year for no profits. All the advantages that you listed could be negociate nation to nation without problem. EU is the main problem of the continent.
EU affairs professional here. The video is well made, it lacks elements and some nuance but it's not a PhD thesis - for example, the initial impulse for European unity was heavily encouraged by the US, with the goal of preventing another major war in Europe, in this regard the OECE (predecessor of today's OECD) was created in 1948 to administer the economic assistance disbursed under the Marshall Plan. It's not an EU body, but it was very important in fostering international economic cooperation.
One fundamental thing about the EU is that it's not a USA-style federation. The EU is a union of sovereign states that combines both integrated policies and cooperation (or supranational and intergovernmental, like we learn in EU integration classes), so there are fields where there are exclusive EU policies like the Common Agricultural Policy (which takes the biggest slice of the budget) or the Common Commercial Policy, and then there's cooperation where the EU participates but doesn't have an exclusive prerrogative - education & healthcare would be good examples, each country is fully sovereign to organize their education & healthcare systems as they like. On the other hand, things like standards for medical devices for ex. fall under EU competences because these are related to the EU internal market. In my university lectures profs. often referred to the EU as an 'unidentified political object' because there was no comparable entity to the European project.
17:10 one thing to keep in mind is that unanimity is limited to areas where the countries keep most of their prerrogatives. Major new decisions & developments, like the adoption of a new treaty or taking new countries require unanimity. On day to day decision making, most Council decisions are taken under a qualified majority, not unanimity. None of this landed from the sky, it is this way because over the decades the national governments decided in this sense that these steps were in their interest, and *every* piece of legislation is the result of a decision-making process that combines the three core institutions: the Commission, the Council and the Parliament. Google 'ordinary legislative procedure' to know more.
20:12 another thing I want to point out here is that contrary to common belief, it was not the 2015 migration crisis that led to the rise of populist & eurosceptic forces - the main driver was the 2008-2009 financial crisis, even before its mutation into the eurozone crisis, this was when the domestic politics in several EU countries were shaken and populist anti-establishment left-wing & right-wing parties started becoming more prominent.
In the UK on the other hand, the Tories have had a Eurosceptic wing since the 70s, when the UK joined the EU. UKIP getting behind the schoolboy rivalry of Boris Johnson and David Cameron didn't help. Johnson was more of a blundering sceptic than the apparently more in-control Cameron, however Cameron was willing to gamble the UK's membership of the EU on what the supposed was the good sense of the British public. That was his first mistake. His second mistake was handing the management of what was supposed to be a "mild" Brexit to someone else, and Theresa May (remember her?) didn't have the skeleton to hold her ground.
And then we get to the lies and sloganeering of the DUP. If more UK politicians had been more informed in UK politics (incl. Northern Ireland), then they would have known the DUP for the shameless chancers they are. I can still remember the big red face on our Sammy and the seething anger of Ian Óg when they realised they were being thrown under the big red bus, and Emily Maitlis laughing at poor Sammy. Oh, that made me feel really good to see that. But instead we had UK politicians who still seem to think that the Republic of Ireland is part of the United Kingdom, and that driving from Newry across a Brexit border to Dundalk would be like crossing a county line in England! Tory politicians are idiots, with their education, their PPE (Politics, Philosophy and Economics) degree and status all paid for by mar and par. Half of them now being done for sexual assault/abuse or some other entitled behaviour.
I think Spencer and Daniel know by now that I've got it in for the DUP.
@@Al_Ellisande True, I didn't go too much into that because Brexit is not the main focus of the video and I'm not a Brit - but there's not enough awareness of how wrong David Cameron played it, all this to become an 'immortal' Tory leader.
I can tell you that in Brussels in the first months after the referendum there was genuine shock & surprise at the result, and quite a few people wanted to make Brexit as less painful as possible for everyone - I also remember thinking NI was going to be an issue, because there's no way you can return to a hard border under the GFA. The meetings between David Davies and Barnier were a sign something was wrong, the UK side was terribly unprepared. Eventually, especially when Johnson came along, all good will dissipated and when January 2020 came along there was mostly relief that Brexit was no longer our problem (well, another *big* problem came along shortly after that but it was unrelated to Brexit).
I still hold the view that May was the 'least worst' PM in the Cameron to Truss era - though she of course was also mired in problems, and her snap election decision made everything worse. I also think some of the Brussels pubs close to the European Parliament miss Farage's patronage, he had one of the worst EP attendance records (he went to the plenary sessions because that's where all the cameras were but did very little work as an MEP) but he was very keen on the local pubs & bars.
I see. Not only democracy was introduced to Europe (especially Germany) by the US, also the EEC/EU was first of all a US project. Humble we can't thank the US enough to ieach us these fundamental stuff. Same with altruistic Marshall Plan ERP, without it we still would live in ruins and eat moss. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
As a EU affairs professional you should put off your blinkers to get a better sight.
@@rosshart9514 Democracy started in ancient Greece, mate.
@@TheHestya Not good in detecting irony, mate?
You dont have to show the passport if you go from france to spain. This is the point "Schengen" is about. There are no border controls between EU-states which are members of "Schengen".
And this is good because? It saves you an hour or so on your travels?
Cool... you keep your soft borders without passports. 😜
There are if you are not an EU citizen
Americans don't need a passport to travel through different states, the EU is creating the same as a continent.
Leaving the EU leaves us Brits up a certain creek without a paddle, but you Americans are so obsessed with being better than everyone else, despite electing Donald Trump and have an insurrection. At least he'll be in jail soon and the rest of the World can heave a sigh of relief! 😮
@@Cunning.Stunt7 It's good because fewer restrictions on people and goods is usually good for the economy, there's also less paperwork.
As for freedom of movement, in the Schengen zone, the movement of people and goods isn't that different from how it is in the US between different states.
@@Cunning.Stunt7 I live 15 minutes away from the german/austrian border and its very good to be able to cross it without any controls. And its not just for travelers but also for companies. You can sell and transport goods without controls too. And are no problems if you want to work in another EU-country.
FYI the Irish constitution can only be amended after a public referendum.
They missed out the part of France that borders Brazil
France's longest land border.
I used to live in Germany (I am German), on the border to Holland. My place of work, however, was in Holland. There wasn't a problem when I applied for the job, I didn't have to move half a mile to make sure I was based in Holland, the HR department took care of my taxes etc. I just had to turn up to work every morning and that was it. I know quite a few people who live in one country and work in another. As EU citizens, we don't have to apply for a visa to get into the other country or apply for a work visa.
excuuuuuse me, you meant to say the netherlands lol
Los holandeses dicen Holanda, no Países Bajos.😂
@@jasperbaba99.9% of Europeans including most dutch says Holland. I knoooow it’s a region in NL and not their official name. But i don’t go around say i am from The Kingdom Of Sweden, I say I’m from Sweden.
@@JohanHultin im one of the few that actually doesnt say holland because i jist think it sounds off somehow, thats it, if it didnt id probably say holland aswell
As a British citizen I'd like to take a moment to acknowledge the morons who voted to strip us of these rights.
Info for France vetoing the UK's accession.
Basically DeGaulle (French then president and national hero) was scared that due to how close the UK was to the US (even today, but especially back then, the French saw the UK as USA's little dog) and that allowing the UK in would influence the E. E. C. (European Economic Community) into becoming the USA's garden.
When the UK entered later on, their relationship with the USA had sowered (they noticed the USA didn't give a crap about their opinion).
And lastly, since the UK left the EU it has never been so united.
Seing how poorly the UK has been doing Euroskeptics parties have either reconverted or lost support.
The reason all nations have to agree for changes in EU is that it is NOT a government.
Europe is NOT a federation.
It is all sovereign states. The union is in essence just a basic "bottom-line" of treaties between the members.
The reason some of us are skeptical of the EU is specifically because we fear it will become a federation, some working within the EU organization seemingly have ambitions of this happening.. We don't want this as this will inevitably lead to centralized power in a federal government with executive power. Like in America.
This creates too much distance in power from the people to the top. I'd say it'd even be a threat to the future of functioning democracy in Europe.
Decentralized power is always better on such huge scales.
the union came about in 1992 they want to eventually be in control of such countries.
Thats why Ireland voted against the Lisbon treaty.
@@macker33 I think if the UK had been given the manifesto promised vote on Lisbon (remember was originally named the EU constitution) then the Brexit vote would never have needed to take place. It was a mistake that led to the growth of UKIP and an in/out referendum, instead of just being a vote to say no to further integration.
it's a super-governmental agency with the power to create, apply and enforce regulations and laws to member states, that is a government!
Tell Poland it's not a government, they're being fined €1 million per day since 2021, and that's just been reduced to €500k per day. How are they doing that without regulatory and legislative power?
The EU's power structure is the most misrepresented fact about the EU. The 9ato7ament does NOT hold the power, the EU commission (an appointed) body is...
@@daveofyorkshire301
It's not fully a government yet. Do not convince yourself of this. Because then you've already subscribed to what a federalist in Europe would like it to be.
Now do I think a change in direction in the EU is likely? For it to stop consolidating power that will eventually work against the betterment of the societies within? Maybe. I'm not willing to lose hope yet that something more productive could be salvaged out of the future of the EU.
The EU was brought about to prevent WWIII. It’s not viewed as a one country of Federation by most because each country has such a richly different culture, history and language
until the union was formed and you do as you are told.
Its funny that in some ways its going back to the way it was centuries ago. There were not internationally recognized borders, guard stations, passports, all that. You basically just went where you wanted and took your chances. there was always the "you dont mess with my people and I dont mess with yours". Clearly because each country has its own government and fiscal policy sometimes countries like Greece get more than they give and Germany gives more than it gets but Greece can get all that sweet sweet vacation money and Germany gets to sell its cars without a lot of paperwork.
What a load of crap, MAD, mutually assured destruction, nuclear weapons stop a third world war. We, the English are well shut of them, twice we pulled them out of the shit, and yet , the French vetoed us, until sadly DE Gaul dropped dead and they let us in, was a good idea in the early years, but now it's a badly run Banana Republic run by none elected nobodies, and the Germans and French, if they shout "shit" the rest of them shout "how high".
you sunshine are utterly clueless
@@sunseeker9581 Don't be so foolish -- they're getting rid of country's veto rights
Freedom of movement in Europe is not like moving between states. You still move within your own counrty. Freedom of movement in the EU is like freedom of movement in north America. Like having no border controls between all the countries on your continent. Canada, US, Mexico, Bahamas, Cuba, Costa Rica etc. Once you pass within a EU border, movement is free and you do not need to show your passport crossing borders within the union.
And if you are a citizen of a EU country, you can move, live or study in any of the other member states as you please.
It really is something special what the EU has managed here.
This is also the freedom of movement that was lost to UK citizens because of Brexit. They, like any other non-EU citizens, now has a timelimit on their time within EU borders before they need to return.
Big difference between the border crisis here and in the US. we opened the borders for free movement, you stuck your border through their land and called it your own 😂
At least they are on our continent you guys did it in Africa south America north America and Asia
@@elvangulley3210THEY are on YOUR continent?!? I‘d say it‘s exactly the other way around.
Even though Switzerland is not a member of the EU, it participates in the Schengen Agreement. This not only ensures freedom of travel for Swiss citizens in the EU, but also enables EU citizens to travel to Switzerland.
Switzerland also has strong contracts with countries around it. Especially because the responsibilities are interlinked at the border.
post Brexit, all other EU countries be like: "okay France, maybe you had a point in not wanting the UK to join..."
France be like: "okay... I will not rub it, btw". And in fact, they did not rub it... they're just letting UK digging their own grave, even extending a helping hand despite the very hostile populist press
Remind me again, which has the largest economy? France or not France?
I don't know anyone personally (other than foreigners) that regrets Brexit. Our disappointment is at our govt not carrying it out. Apart from taxes they act like they're still in it along with 3x more immigrants after 'taking control' of our borders. We never voted to join the EU, only the free trade, we wanted Britain to retain some form of democracy so left.
France vetoed the UK twice also because they knew they didn't want to get involved in the European project (peace, political union in the very long term) , They only wanted to get advantage of the single market with easy access to numerous customers. The English have not changed. That's one of the reason why they voted for brexit in 2016
... and 450 million europeans are now really happy to not have anymore to deal with those greedy english people. Scotland will be welcome back in EU as soon as they get free from England, and Ireland will reunite and pull NI inside the EU.
... and 450 million europeans are now really happy to not have anymore to deal with those greedy english people. Scotland will be welcome back in EU as soon as they get free from England, and Ireland will reunite and pull NI inside the EU.
I was in Schengen in Monday, within Europe you don't need to show your passport when you cross the border. I was in France, Germany and Luxemburg in one day. I did have to show my passport when I was in Switzerland, didn't have to when I was in Belgium or Netherlands, that is the beauty of living in Europe.
Switzerland is in Schengen. Border control can ask you for your Passport on any border in the Schengen area but not all the time.
@@simon.kellerdesign
They can have spot checks but it's very rare because it's against the spirit of the single market and freedom of movement.
Who needs passport when you have the european ID card.
@@Lorre982 European ID card what's that? Aren't they national ID cards? Ireland doesn't have them. We have an optional passport card for use in the EU.
@@RazorMouth I think he meant : a national indentity card issued in a member State opens you freely the doors of Europe. (I have the European stars on my French identity card, with FR in the middle of the stars)
After the Schengen area came in it was fantastic driving through France, Belgium, Luxemburg and Germany without stopping, with just maybe an old dusty disused wooden hut on the border. At the resort on the banks of the River Moselle at Schengen, I walked over the bridge from Lux into Germany and back again, with no passport or officialdom around. That felt incredible.
During the Cold War Eastern European countries were not members of Eurovision Association. Therefore, they were not eligible to participate in Eurovision song contest. The only exception was former Yugoslavia, which was sort of neutral country and member of Eurovision.
fun fact for you - you seem to realise that the UK (or rather england) and France dont seem to be close friends and they have had a LOT of wars between them - but sweden and denmark WAY outnumbers them in wars between us - since the concept of sweden and today there have been some 27 wars (big and small) between sweden and denmark (along with a pretty long occupation by denmark and several rebellions from the 1400-hundreds to the victory in 1523) and today we (sweden and denmark) are pretty good friends on the global scene
7:51 DeGaulle said that they were too Atlanticist and would ask for more and more privileges while reducing their financial participation and would slow down the necessary European construction.
The Lisburn treaty was the EU constitution in all but name. A constition change would require a referendum in every member state. Every country that was given a referendum on the constitution rejected it. By changing it to a treaty governments could accept the treaty without giving the people a chance to reject it via a referendum. However Poland and Ireland's own constitutions required that their governments held referendums to accept the treaty. The polish Accepted the treaty and Ireland rejected it. After the finacial crash the Irish were given another referendum and were threatened by the EU that they wouldn't bail out Ireland unless they accepted the treaty. Very reluctantly the Irish accepted the treaty. The rest of us were never asked and had it forced on us.
'Lisbon'... Lisburn is a place in N. Ireland. Ireland (RoI) rejected the treaty mostly over concerns on military cooperation as we are neutral, also concerns over tax harmonisation and some sovereignty issues. Opt outs were sought and negotiated for and an updated version of the treaty was put to the people... as our concerns had been addressed we were happy to vote yes! In fact it was one of the highest 'yes' votes in favour of the EU... Ireland was never 'threatened' by the EU although that was the storyline given out by certain British papers (the same ones that howled about 'bendy bananas', 'hairnets for fishermen' etc). Unlike the UK, support for EU membership has always been high in Ireland
The irish refused to pass the referendum because of neutrality and abortion clauses in it, which were changed so the second vote passed. The EU threatened not to bail them out because Ireland didn't want to pay the private debt which was a gambling debt which were vulture funds as they bet on the irish economy and lost which was different from the sovereign debt, the EU said no pay both both or else which strange which one was a gambling, you bet on a horse he loses you don't get your money back
When the UK was in the EU it was great, for example when I went to work in Greece I just hopped on a plane and started working, then went home. No drama. I needed to show my passport to board the plane of course as with any international flight, but when we landed in Greece we had all the same rights as the locals, and they had the same back here.
Eurovision has nothing to do with the EU.
Hahahaha *good one*
The EU is a supranational union. The USA is a federal union which is much more comparable to Germany, except that the German states have a bit more autonomy than the US states.
more autonomy?
@@Ari33sa Yes. Germany is a federal state that consists of sixteen states (Bundesländer). Each state has its own government with its own constitution, formulates its own policy and implements it. The central government actually only has little to say and only in a small number of areas: especially when it comes to foreign policy or defense. But otherwise the Länder are independent in many areas: when it comes to healthcare or education or laws and government. Areas that in other countries are national policy, like combating terrorism for example, is also de facto a Bundesland responsibility and not of the central government.
If it was down to a football match, America wouldn't stand a chance at all lol
They'd show up with an egg-shaped ball and shoulder pads.
I love beeing part of EU with all its members. I think it strengthens us and makes us come along. Wouldnt trade it. Of course there are difficulties but together we are way stronger. The Brexit is hilarious and sad at the same time. Tho british gov lied to their people with the outcome that was clear to most other people outside
It was clear to those of us in Britain who actually bothered to inform ourselves before voting too.
Brexit preyed on the uneducated, uninformed and gullible. It's the biggest con in British history.
What are you talking about? The british government campaigned to remain, even overspent on the campaign budget and used taxpayer money to issue a letter to every household urging them to remain......Cameron resigned because his government didn't get the answer they wanted
This is a common lie in Europe, we weren't lied to many of us simply don't like European politics. If I had to I'd vote to tell the EU to fuck off a second time!
@@lewis123417 even if they advertised to stay. The British people who wen to vote voted to leave and this was the majority. The mismanagement that happened afterwards was even worse. You can logically think what happens if you leave an institution that is liable to a lot of good stuff. Sure there are some bad stuff but it is obvious if you try to understand the systems you live in. I would not trade with anyone. Lucky enough I was born and lucky enough in the EU
if ever there was a father ted quote i didn't expect to hear IRL, "i'll give you a clue, you live there..." ...
Omg - cant stop laughing - American stereotypes to the front - again - lol 😂
The ECSC was formed by 6 countries namely Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands and Germany. Thus not only France and Germany
Nice video ! I am from Luxembourg by the way. At some point you said that danmark didn't join... they did and actually one of the first 12 countys to join (I am Danish because my 2 parents are... born in Luxembourg tho). But they did not agrre with the fact to have only one currency (the euro of course... but that was much later on)
As someone from Northern Ireland, I was laughing when you guys sighed when you saw the video addressing the NI/RoI border :D I'm sure there's a few people having a fit in the comments somewhere lol.
It was Norwegians who didn't join, you guys crack me up, love your reactions to the videos.
You don’t need to show a passport at all when you move within the Schengen area. When I flew to Iceland I didn’t need a passport (just an I.D. for the airplane boarding). I cross the Belgium border 4 times per day when I walk my dogs around the village. You don’t notice where one country starts and the other begins, besides the road getting badly maintained when entering Belgium.
That's interesting....Is there at least a sign telling you that you're now in Belgium?
@@lauraj8429 on the larger roads there is, but on the smaller roads and footpaths there isn’t always a sign
So I love watching your guys channel. I enjoy all of the content you put ou t and your very honest, and oftentimes, hilararious, reactions. However, I can't help but noticde that it's been a few days since you gurs last did a reaction to "The IT Crowd" . The IT Crowd is one of my absolute favorite comedies of all time. It never fails to make me howl with laughter everytime I watch an episode. Very few comedies make me laugh until my sides literally hurt. But this one does. Anyway, I hoping and praying that CZcams hasn't taken down and blocked tne videos and you two can continue to react to and upload them. Because i really am enjoying watching the episodes along with you two and seeing you howl with laughter along with me. It really does make my day.
After thousands of years of massacring each other...
Isn’t it great such a volatile area created a shared agreement to bring about peace
While you Americans massacre others from other continents.
Sounds like you are talking about humans in general.
Great video. The Northern Ireland border is still an issue today with all sorts of protest especially at port borders. Never ending 😂
Honestly I don't think anyone cares, no offence. But some people in NI think they're far too important and most of us don't pay much attention to the whinging.
NI is only about 25% of the population of the island and only about 3% 👈 of the population of the UK.
If they had set up a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, it would not have gone down very well. There would have been a high likelihood that the IRA would have become very active again, very quickly. It would have set the peace process back by decades overnight.
I give you a clue: you live there.
Oh yes, erh, Maryland.
Hilarious. That alone was worth watching the video.
Otherwise, cudos to you guys for diving into this quite complex topic. Actually many Europeans have learned a lot about the US during the Trump administration (sometimes more than we would have liked...), mostly about your political system but also your geography. Perhaps it might be quite interesting for some Americans to learn a few things about the EU.
Best from EU FC. ;-)
The institutions of the EU
The Commission is in Brussels
The European Court of Justice is in Luxembourg
The EU Parliament meets in Brussels and Strasbourg
These were decided early on by the original six countries
and I would say they are on the Franco-German fault line
these are countries / places that have been contended over
by both the Germans and the French
for centuries.
It was a symbolic act on the part of the EEC (as the EU was called).
BTW it is only the Treaty parts of the organisation that require unanimity
as each country is a sovereign state changing the Treaties
requires the signatures of every country.
I cannot remember completely but there are some other things
like admission to the EU that requires unanimity.
Technically the referendum in 2016 in the UK was advisory
but the government and parliament took it seriously
and parliament technically voted to withdraw in March 2017.
Britain was originally asked to join the EU when it first formed, but declined wanting to see how it progressed first, however it attended all the meetings as an observer and British lawyers did much of the work in shaping the European Court of Human Rights.
De Gaulle has a lot to answer for. He was a well balanced individual with a chip on each shoulder, prickly, resentful, and disruptive and still viewed France as a great colonial power. His pride was wounded that France owed it's freedom from the Nazi's to Britain and the US and resented them both for it.
He'd never got over the fact that France was only invited to meetings of the three allies in WWII as a courtesy by Churchill - Roosevelt couldn't stand him and didn't want him there. As France was occupied and had no military anymore he had little influence in the meetings and this wounded his inflated ego and prickly sense of honour.
Stopping Britain from joining for 15 years was his petty act of revenge for all these imagined slights.
Britain, France and Germany were the most powerful countries in Europe after WWII, especially Britain, so De Gaulle was also worried that Britain might take over if it joined, or that Britain and Germany would gang up on France.
The consequence of this was that Britain had no say in the formation and initial aims of the EU. Our fault for not joining at the start and De Gaulles for his petty desire to humble Britain. This in turn meant Britain was never fully on board or in agreement with some of the aims of the EU, we wanted it to be mainly a trade organisation and shared human rights, mutual co-operation etc whilst some of the founders wanted to go further and unite Europe under one banner.
Brexit: Despite what the tabloids and leaders of the Leave movement claim the main aims of Brexit were:
1) To get rid of EU protections for ordinary people.
Annoying stuff like human rights, workers rights, pollution & environmental controls, food safety and animal welfare, etc. Whilst good for ordinary citizens all these reduce corporate profit and stop the rich elite from exploiting and ripping off the population as much as they want. And we can't have that can we?
This resulted in 17M people being conned into voting away their hard fought for rights. And the rights of all of the rest of us too.
It's worth noting that voting data shows that the most uneducated people voted leave (70% of those who left school at 16), whilst the better educated and informed voted to remain (68% of those with a degree). Brexit propaganda preyed on the uneducated, uninformed and gullible.
2) The EU was bringing in new laws so that all tax schemes etc would be transparent. this would mean everyone could see who was dodging paying their fair share of taxes. And that terrified the super rich right wing.
3) Hedge fund managers made a killing from Brexit betting on the pound shorting. People like Jacob Rees-Mogg and various others. His hedge-fund firm was making huge loses and his investors were leaving because he's not nearly as clever as he thinks he is.
When the pound collapsed after Leave won (by breaking electoral law BTW), he wiped out 2/3rds of his company's loses and made a cool £7M himself and bought a £5M mansion. This by the way is a massive conflict of interest, but for some reason not actually illegal. He also moved his company's HQ to the EU so it still benefits from EU membership.
The stuff about immigration was just a smoke screen to get the mob on board. The EU and immigrants were convenient scapegoats for the country's problems, when in reality most were the Governments fault. It's an old trick - blame everything on a minority group, as the Nazi's did with the Jews.
@3:40 the original union was just for coal and steel. Both to harmonise rebuilding (avoid dumping), optimise production for military purposes (out fear from the east block) and so that allies can check each other's steel/coal production, which are major indicators for military build up, as happened with Hitler in the 30s. Trust wasn't yet there. As for buying up countries: the EU tries to maintain a 60% debt to GDP ratio. USA is currently at 129%. Miss Puerto Rico status updates in the USA video.
I live in Belgium. 7 miles from The Netherlands and 15 miles from Germany. We don't need a passport, so we do our grocery shopping in three countries and save a LOT of money. Gotta love Schengen!! I can work in Spain if I want or go to hospital in Ireland. I can order from companies in Denmark without extra customs to pay. I have a UK passport, but EU residency. I can see how much damage Brexit has done to the UK, and I'm still waiting to hear about any benefits it has brought. Look at the UK economy and its decline since then!!
I'm British and I'm still waiting for the so-called benefits of Brexit lol, so far, all I've seen from Brexit is a negative impact in the UK in so many areas.
But to be fair, Brexit was needed in the UK, the country has been so hostile towards the EU project that the British people needed a reality check which they are getting as we speak.
On the plus side, views in the UK on the EU project are changing, support for the EU in the UK is at it's highest level it's been in decades, quite remarkable to see really and maybe someday that will pull the UK back into the EU, but I don't expect that to happen for at least 2 or 3 decades, considering the EU can block that and I can think of a number of EU members that would block it also.
Best the UK can do is create warmer relations with the EU, which it is doing slowly, maybe even someday to rejoin the single market and custom union.
11:27 The Eastern Block had a song contest called "Intervision Song Contest" (ISC). A communist equivalent to the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC).
It's amazing how many people, including people in the UK, think that we've left Europe. We left the European Union, not Europe.
Russia is also in Europe and yet no one believes that they are European. It's like with the USA: When you talk about America, you mean the USA. When you talk about Europe, you mean the EU. Both are the dominant power.
Lol I think it's just that most people use Europe and the EU interchangeably. Not that they think they somehow voted for the British Isles to float off into the middle of the Atlantic (as nice as that would be)
@@Mischnikvideos As an EU and a European citizen I do not agree with your conclusion. I do see the Russian people as European people. I just do not see them as sharing same political ideas.
And I can understand that some people will not agree with above statement, but how about Norway and Switzerland. They for sure are European, but not EU. And after Brexit the same applies for UK...
@@Mischnikvideos Uhm no.
Most Europeans do not consider the EU as being "Europe", I sure don't and more than a few Europeans, including med, can get somewhat anoyed when US-Americans claim to *be* America.
@@tomvanaarle2622 When I read the news, this is how I write. The political continent of Europe as the EU and the other states are not included. When people talk about a European position, they mean the EU. The vote of non-EU states has no significance for Europe as a whole. The only exception is Russia and they are not perceived as Europeans. They are the “others”.
The same applies to the USA. If something happens on the double continent that they don't like, first the CIA comes and then the Marines. The superpower wants to dominate everything and can do so. That's why there are US Americans and Latin Americans. When the news talks about America, it means the superpower and not Argentina. Although there are twice as many Latin Americans as Americans.
Football club? Ha ha ... got a good laugh here. Thanks from Norway.
"So we'll leave it there....we're going to let our audience talk about brexit... leave it on the comments". You have no idea what you're asking for, this comment section won't end well 😂
These people cannot be that clueless.
You don't need a passport to travel between most EU countries
No passport at the borders. No control of any kind. Basically you just drive and at some point it will say "you are now in germany" or whatever
That was really interesting. I suppose there was also a lot of pressure on Europe to band together after WW2, with the two biggest powers being the US and Russia (both of them federations) a European Federation makes a lot of sense - more presence on the world stage and all that. I need to learn more about the formation of the US - sounds very interesting! On another note, I voted Remain and would rather have stayed in the EU but I love the fact that the result of the referendum was respected, even if most of the politicians were for Remain - I value democracy higher than the EU as a particular political body. Whether or not we should have held the referendum I'm not sure, it's complicated and absolutely above my pay-grade. However, I don't think it was a wrong thing to do; the EU has changed a lot since we joined so it makes sense to check everyone's still ok with it. Either way, it happened and I want us to do well regardless - take new opportunities and stay close to Europe. As long as we're all reasonable and understanding of each other I'm sure it'll all come out in the wash 😄 Sorry for the essay, love your videos
Just check "Operation Gladio"
Just to mention:
That the big migration crisis mostly took place because of the US interventions and regime changes in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Mali and Afghanistan, that leaves some of that countries in chaotic civil war conditions. What also causes the bigges raise of Warlords and Militant Groups in all history, like ISIS, Al Qa'ida, Al Shabaab, Ansar al Sharia, Hizballah and Taliban, just to name a few. Some of that groups are better armed now than some of the smaller EU countries. Just check the list of what military equipment (worth more than 7 Billion Dollar) was left behind just in Afghanistan, its mind blowing.
Us government is so ruthless, not only with the lives and money of your taxpayers, but also with what happens to the countries that you completely destroy and leave behind in chaos.
Just since 2001 caused at least 4.5 million killed and displaced 38 to 60 million people, with 7.6 million children starving today, according to studies by Brown University.
At least! The number of unreported cases is likely to be significantly higher.
Before uk owner of the part eastcost, was it owner of those part of the eastcoast was actually the Netherlands, and then the uk steal it from the Netherlands ( i am sorry for my bed English it is not my first language )
People who live/work in US/Canada get special permission, normally. It's quite interesting.
As a European, I'm very Churchill about it. “The EU is the worst form of government - except for all the others that have been tried.”
Yes worth noting that Churchill was actually very pro European unity. Also during the war he even went as far as proposing that Britain and France be merged into one Country called the Franco-British Union. He's an icon of patriotism and so many nationalists often mischaracterize him and what his actual beliefs were.
To be fair, no government is perfect, not by a long shot and there's far worse than what the EU offers around the world, even in Europe.
As for the EU project, I tend to look at the project through a different lens then most, I don't look at the project in what I want or don't want, I look at it from the perspective of what is needed to be done so Europeans can protect their political, economic and social interest, which basically means we need to band together, a lot more than we have done if we truly want to protect our interest in a fast changing world that's dominated by big power blocks like the US and China, the alternative is that we Europeans get sidelined, which will weaken us in a lot of areas.
So personally, I think further integration is going to happen our of survival and to protect our interest.
@@paul1979uk2000i agree. I would support a much stronger cooperation, including a joint army and abandoning of the veto system for third countries policies.
The decision to leave the EU BY THE UK us, in my opinion (a Brit!) the worse decision we ever made!!!
During cold war eastern block had their own Eurovision-like contest called Intervision Song Contest. Everyone started joining Eurovision after eastern block collapsed. '94 was first year where ex-eastern block countries participated
Eurovision is a TV company not the EU.
@ did i suggest otherwise anywhere? or perhaps you replied to the wrong comment by mistake
I went to school in another country. Each day I went back and forth between different countries.
Don’t forget that when your new president Biden came into power he threw his weight around in the Brexit issues, as his ancestors were Irish (he must have forgotten his English heritage). We still don’t have a trade agreement with the US yet we are supposed to be your closest allies. I love America and used to live there.
Definitely keep our sister at arms length, when it comes to health care, food standards and workers rights... corrrr imagine taking 60 years worth of steps backwards 🫥
To answer one of you questions, my uncle lives in Antwerp, Belgium, and has worked in Breda, Netherlands for 15 years. You do not have to show your passport going within the Schengen Area, just your ID if you take the plane or train. If you're by car there's just a board by the side of the road saying something like 'Welcome to (insert country name)'. I ( Belgium) have been going on holiday by car to France and Spain since I was a baby and have never once had to show my passport. Even when we drive through Switzerland (which is not part of Schengen) to get to southern France, there is a border control, but you don't always have to show your ID or passport.
It can be interesting to think about the parallels with the States in some respects but ultimately we are just talking about trade agreements between Countries which is very different to the federal governance of the States. The video is a little misleading when covering the schengen agreement and heavily implies that it wasn't introduced until 1995 which isn't the case. Also the map implies Norway had no agreement at all until very recently but it has been schengen since 1996. Which is an interesting point because as an EU member the UK actually had more control over its borders than even some non-EU members as well as any other EU member.
The EU is more than trade agreements. Some powers are given to the EU institutions that allow for setting bottom lines in industry, agriculture and services. Some of these can be vetoed by a single EU country. I'd say the EU sits somewhere between a bunch of (trade) agreements and a federation. Neither describes the current state of the EU accurately.
I mean, 'Union' is an accurate way to describe that. And its federation like aspects are certainly nowhere near the ideas that many fear- its members are sovereign states that retain much independence and collaborate in the decision making without a strong central government or unified political system. The way I hear many Brexiters talk, you would think we had won a war of independence rather than actually just leaving a Union and having to renegotiate less favourable trade deals @@marcelh7864
The EU also distributes money for economic development. They want to develop Europe economically, for the benefit of everyone. This also attracts money from outside the Union to invest or buy. The British believe that their island on the edge of Europe is attractive enough and that the mainland is unimportant.
This guy fails to undestand the huge difference of different countries that have different cultures for thousands of years working together and the states of the US doing it. This is not comparable brother
Imagine that people who leave school have the opportunity to live work and travel all over Europe and they never experienced it otherwise. They simply never seen it "the old way"
That's why the most Europeans have friends from other country's and speak 2 or 3 languages
Also as German I can hop on a train and can travel to France Netherlands Spain etc in a few hours and for less then 200 euro
To compare this with the USA you has to be able to do this in Kanada Mexico and so on
the fact that Ukraine was trying to join the European Union and NATO is one of the main reasons Russia invaded them as an attack on one would be seen as an attack on all members IMO
no it was not there was other reason .
we all know there was other reason but if Ukraine where in NATO they most likely would not of invaded so lets hear your reasons @@XENONEOMORPH1979
No it was not. NATO and EU membership weren’t even on the table for Ukraine before February ‘22. And Putin even declared he would support Ukraine becoming an EU member before the war.
The main reason is that Putin wanted to go down in history as the new tsar who restored the grandeur of the Russian empire.
@@Hadewijch_ what about the previous president to Ukraine who had 150 billion from Russia
what people say in public is different to what they say in private ,that is politics for you
And we never left!
We (the UK) have been allies with France for a long time now, going back to before the American Civil War. We fought in the Crimean war together against Russia (1853-56), We signed the Entente Cordiale together in 1904, we fought in the Great War (1914-18) together and of course in WWII and helped to liberate France. We were also allies in the Suez Crisis (1956) but that didn't work out so well; Charles De Gaulle wasn't a great fan of Britain, despite WWII, but then almost no one liked him as an individual.
We travel to France in our millions and have a great sporting rivalry with them, especially in Rugby and Football.
6:05 The problem was not that the UK "was too close of an ally to the US". The problem was that France considered (and Brexit proved it) that the UK was not interested in peace-building and wanted in just for the economic benefit.
7:57 Denmark did join; it was Norway that didn't. The reason was that the EEC included a "common fisheries" policy (i.e., each member state may acquire fishing quotas in other member's territorial waters) and fishing was extremely important to Norway's economy, so the people didn't want to give rights on that.
14:34 No, you don't have to show your passport to go between France and Spain (or to take a flight from Portugal to Finland). In land borders, except under special circumstances (terrorist attack, pandemic, etc.), there is no physical infrastructure on the border between Spain and France, or France and Italy, etc. And to take a flight within the EU you just need to show your national ID card. (Irish citizens must show a passport because the Irish government does not issue national ID cards.)
Brexit.The British wanted to ban all EU fishermen from their coast. Then the Belgians raised their hands. We helped an English king in the 1600s and he promised us in writing that our fishermen would be allowed to fish off the English coast.
The British wanted to leave the common market but retain the advantages of the common market. The EU just says: if you leave, then you leave.
The EU secured its rights, but the British negotiated poorly on Brexit.
In return, the English made bad treaties with the Asian states. The Japanese can bring their cars to England tax-free, but the English offer the Japanese cheese, which the Japanese don't eat.
Yeah, we know. It's horrifyling difficult.
Better than the alternative, though. 🙂
its not even that difficult
It's not that difficult at all, when you have some basic knowledge of Europe. If you're going in blank, it's a lot harder it seems :o).
@@user-xi6nk4xs4s If you've lived in Europe for a number of decades, I'd imagine you'd be equally as qualified to comment on the issue as me.
UK and six other countries founded their own free trade area (The European Free Trade Association (EFTA)) in 1960. Several European countries joined EFTA afterwards and nowadays Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland are still EFTA countries.
Ironically, after Brexit, the UK didn't want to go back. Instead, they negotiated a contract with the EU.
They glossed over a lot of issues here so i should point out what they missed.
1) The original EEC was purely an economic arrangement which has since snowballed into a monstrous political Frankenstate stiched together from 27 individual nations.
2) there is serious religious and cultural divide across Europe, northwest being more atheist and liberal vs eastern conservative Christian and Turkey wants in as a country of Muslims veering more to political Islamism.
3) the modern EU is unsubtly attempting to be a United States of Europe taking more power from the countries and putting the EU in a superior legal status. This combined with eastward expansion is really making Russia mad.
4) while opening internal borders they didn't bother to enhance external border security and now millions of unwanted immigrants are pouring in year after year. No EU politician has had the balls to say "shoot them!' Yet.
5) image if every central and south American citizen had the right to move to the US permanently and work from day 1, that the Fed had to bail out those countries with US taxpayer's money when they screw up and if they don't like your laws they can vote to overturn them?
Just some hard official stats that help quantify the voting outcome for the UK Referendum in 2016 - 51.9% voted to Leave. 48.1% voted to Remain.
Total population UK 65 Million. Total electorate (eligible to vote) 46.5 million. Voting turnout was 72%.
People who voted to Remain = 16,141,241 (35% of the electorate, 24.8% of the population).
People who voted To Leave = 17,410,742 (38% of the electorate, 26.7% of total population).
The voting outcome was a close run result, and was a huge surprise to the Prime Minister David Cameron who had used the Referendum as a device to win the previous General Election to return to power with a greater majority - 'those in Power' didn't think it would happen. He resigned immediately after the vote causing wrangling within the Conservative-led Government resulting in a procession of 4 prime ministers - May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak. So the result sent shockwaves through the country, the economy and the EU with many people in disbelief. The repurcussions impacted on personal relationships and caused unrest, division and upset as the reality set in and has played out across the country and caused major disruption within Parliament and Government. The Pandemic arriving in 2020 only added to the economic and social fall out. As ever both the UK and Europe are pressing forwards and rebuilding and facing the challenges of cost-of-living crisis and the responding to the impact of World events (notably the conflict in Ukraine) affecting energy prices etc.
"Finaly some progress between the UK and France" next thing you know the brexit happens xD
I’m swiss literally grew up 5mins walk from france and played in another country as a child. Officially back then we had border patrol but they only walked around near the border and never checked any pedestrians. Later i moved to the neighboring city, 10 minutes by car from Germany. McDonalds was always cheaper there. So we drove our bicycles across the border for a cheap big mac. The other way around we had many german and French workers who earned up to multiple times the salary of their own countries. Live cheap but earn a lot by just crossing the border every morning and evening. When france closed the border because of covid, they had to do a daily test which was pretty annoying for them and lots of traffic jams in front of the border checkpoints even with Schengen membership of all countries
I really do not get why "Americans", especially those with obviously European ancestry, are always talking about that rich-in-conflict history of European countries, which were unable to get along with each other, as if they had nothing to do with it. Dude, your grandparents grandparents were part of those conflicts. The people emigrating to "the new world" did not magically appear out of thin air or arrived from outer space on planet earth. They were born somewhere. And for white Americans, that place most likely was somewhere in Europe. European history is also US history.
I always find it funny that Americans today like to forget which nation actually made their country great. It wasn't the British, nor the French, but the Germans. German soldiers, German inventors and engineers, German farmers, built the USA. If they had had more political ambition at that time, then German would be spoken in the USA today. After all, one-third of the total population is of German origin, making it the largest ethnic group in the United States.
There's not a separate NI/Irish passport, it's the same.
It's the UK passport fir NI.
@@neuralwarpIt can be both since 1998 Belfast Agreement...
@@johncahalane7327 People who were born in Northern Ireland have been entitled to Irish citizenship and to hold an Irish passport for a lot longer than that.
Article 2 of the Irish constitution, which was enacted in 1937, states that:
"It is the entitlement and birthright of every person born in the island of Ireland, which includes its islands and seas, to be part of the Irish Nation. That is also the entitlement of all persons otherwise qualified in accordance with law to be citizens of Ireland."
Part Ⅱ, Subsection 6-(1) of the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act enacted in 1956 states that a person born in Northern Ireland can be considered an Irish citizen if:
"...in the prescribed manner, that person, if of full age, declares himself to be an Irish citizen or, if he is not of full age, his parent or guardian declares him to be an Irish citizen."
14:35 No, you don't need to show your passport or even have one to cross from Spain to France. There are no border controls betweeen Schengen Area members. You could drive from Portugal to Finland without having to show any kind of ID. Most borders are a sign informing you are entering into a different country if they are in a road or are just a line painted on the ground if they are inside a city, Imagine if, instead of a wall, the border between El Paso, Texas and Juárez, México was a white line in the ground with no police watching it because is completely legal to cross from one to the other as many times as you want and for any reason you want.
Speaking on amendments to constitutions, all EU treaty require changing a constitution, but the Irish constitution can only be changed via referendum. The Government can make proposed changes but cannot implement them without the will of the people. Also a key reason Ireland voted against lisbon is because it threatened our Military Neutrality.
you guys think about it as living in france and working in spain but the fun part is you can just move to spain or any other schengen-area country and start working there
gosh never say Poland was part of the soviet union. Poland was part of the soviet sphere of influence or simply soviet block but never ever was part of the soviet union
Most Americans don't seem to have any understanding of basic European history. The majority of them probably have no idea which countries were part of the Soviet Union or what the difference between the Soviet Union and Russia is, so I doubt they'd know that the Polish People's Republic even existed. A lot of them still think that Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia are still countries and I'd be willing to bet that there are a least a few Americans who think that the Soviet Union still exists.
There is so much nonsense talked about Brexit!
It is certainly still a divisive issue in the UK but most sensible economists believe in the long term, the economic outcomes will be negligible either way... but here's the rub...
There are two economic models that are generally accepted as likely to be successful
One is the United states of Europe - a Federal Europe, very much like the USA with a federal government, a single currency, macro economic policy, tax raising powers, control of a European military, a President and all the trappings and infrastructure you might expect.
The other is a "loose" alliance of countries forming a single trading block with homogenised regulations, food, industrial and trading standards but retaining national sovereignty.
Either model woks on an international basis but the belief amongst (thinking) Brexit voters was that the Federal model wasn't wanted or likely to be feasible, but the EU had already moved too far towards the Federal model which is currently an economic "fudge" between the two models and the USE is thought to be unobtainable.
Many (thinking) remain voters felt that Britain's natural "home" was to continue to be a part of this ongoing project with the benefits outweighing the political/sovereignty issues. (ignorant extremists on either side of the argument are basically "oxygen thief's and not worth listening to!🙂)
Truth be told only time will tell. The UK joined the "common market" (model two) in 1973 and left (as it moved towards model one) 47 years later - come back in another 47 years to find out if it was a poor decision or a lucky escape!
Think you should also have a America's Union. Freedom of movement around the American continent, one currency and a parliament of all Countries, each country (USA, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina etc) having one vote to decide common laws, with majority vote setting them.
Well, that would never work. First off, there isn't even an agreement on how many America's there are. The north Americans usa Canada Mexico believes there's two continents north and south America. The other believes there is just one American continent. Second the south Americans hate America-usa. Third China owns south America now. Fourth there aren't enough rich countries to support the poorer ones like Europe has.
Yes, I agree with you, it is a miracle. From the first day when it started. Germany and France had been at war in 1871,1914,1940 (3 wars over 70 years, for the latest wars). On 9th May 1950, only five years after of the end of WW2, the French Foreign Office Minister, Robert Schuman, proposed the German head of State, K Adenauer, to share the management of steel and coal through a supranational institution. The German were very surprised. The French minister was very much criticized in France. It was a step in the unknown. But it turned out to be a success (even when a crisis in coal occured, they managed to handle it as well as possible), for peace and for more prosperity. And Germany and France turned into a couple.
The Schuman Declaration of the 9th May 1950 was chosen as the date of birth of the institutions, now the EU. "A united Europe was not achieved, so we had war. Europe will not be made at once, or according a single plan. It will be built through concrete achievements which first create a de facto solidarity". So, it is a very pragmatic ambitious project.
Proud to be part of it and to enjoy peace and freedoms. I belong to the EU which is a major bloc on the world stage, whereas my country alone wouldn't count for much negociating with the USA or China or India. I am so amazed by what has been done so far that I am trustful for the future of our united Europe, whatever the difficulties. Union makes strengh.
Drove from the Netherlands to Montenegro had to show my ID twice ty Bosnia. Crossing even most former Yugoslavia states without any border control. The only times would be on airplorts just to confirm you are an EU citizen and take the quick lane without customs.
14:00 the moment they wanted to confirm they didnt understood half of it😂
For me the main problem is a non elected group making rules for the whole of the EU . How would you like group from say the US , CANADA and MEXICO making laws for all three countries.
OMG i just start the video, he really never heard about Europeenne Union ?
How is possible ?
You have not geography class in the Us ??
I m so chock 😱😱
14:35 no, you are wrong. You DON"T need to show anything since Schengen came into effect - and Switzerland is part of Schengen (not the EU) and you don't have to show anything there either. That was briefly suspended for COVID to reduce people traveling unnecessarily and spreading disease and during some of the migrant crisis moments when war in Syria broke out, but that doesn't mean everyone was checked; there was just more like what you may see entering California.
So Northern Ireland is on the eu for goods so if you order stuff from Europe to Northern Ireland they are no other charges BUT if you live in England, Scotland, Wales and to are buying something from Europe you will be paying extra charges or the item gets sent back that's why customers and businesses who are buying stuff from Europe or making imports to sell within the UK have to pay massive charges
The real challenge for the EU is to indeed enforce majority voting. But the problem is that all states need to agree to that. It will only happen when Europe passes yet another huge crisis. The pandemic for instance helped a lot to improve the decision making...
His pattern on history is exactly the same as me, when I was at school, I just didn't care about history, when I left, I care far more about it and for me, it was because of the kind of history that was focused on at school, I'm from the UK and there was way too much focus on UK history, which for me is really dull and boring, even to this day, when I left school, I started to learn about world history, starting with the Romans, and I started to get a lot more interested in history.
But don't get me wrong, I'm thankful for the education I got at school, but there are areas where it could be better like with history being a lot more broad.
As for France and vetoing the UK, in the end, they were proven right, the UK is too close to the UK, being called a puddle by many, the UK have also been a pain in the arse when it comes to EU unity and integration, so much so that I always felt the UK only joined for the economic benefits, which ironically, a lot of Brits thought the EU was supposed to be an economic only union, when in reality, the EU was always a political and economic union, aiming for further integration of its members, that was well known even before the UK joined the EEC, but with all the lies from governments and media in the UK, the people got a very distorted view on what the EU is, which in the end led to Brexit.
30:25 The 'European Parliament' is a supernational legislator with 705 members (Member of European Parliament, MEP), elected by the people who are citizens of EU member nations. MEPs do not represent nations or national governments but political ideologies (liberal, conservative, social democrat, greens, left, etc). For example, a German citizen will vote for a German MEP candidate for the European Parliament to represent their political ideology, not Germany as a nation. EU member nations have representation in the 'Council of the European Union'.
Why would crossing Panama Canal by swimming be difficult? After looking at you both... yeah, that one.
It's shorter distance than minimum requirement for you to get "able to swim" mark.
You have never even see the ocean other than in pictures and books, right? Go and try crossing it yourself… good riddance for us all
@@mhorworshipper7456 Search Panama canal. It's not ocean. Maybe you think it's similar to English Channel?
Ireland holds referendums as they are required to edit the irish constitution. Most EU countries can ratify EU treaties without a referendum.