OK, but each nation within that EU bubble has their own ambitions of supremacy - and that includes developing their 'own' weapons-system which is difficult to integrate with the others... so Von der Lying's ambitions of achieving a unified 'EU army' are doomed from inception.
Talking about the 'EU economy' is a figment of the imagination. Each country still has their own economy, and EU rules only complicate things. Yeah, they pay to be part of the EU, and yeah they sometimes get some of that payment back as a 'grant'. But I just see that as fiddling while Rome burns, TBH. And as an example, Greece got the skinny end of that lollipop, or look at how the EU interferes with Hungary, Romania, Slovakia polittics etc. (Democracy in action, really?)/
In terms of Russian birth-rates: it is a criticism to be levelled at any 'developed' nation. The only countries in the world that have positive birth-rates are African. So not fair pointing to Russia as having 'that problem' sounds a wee bit like propaganda - it's true, but it is just as true for any English-speaking nation, and China, and Japan, even India and anyone else, really (except for Africans).
OK, but each nation within that EU bubble has their own ambitions of supremacy - and that includes developing their 'own' weapons-system which is difficult to integrate with the others... so Von der Lying's ambitions of achieving a unified 'EU army' are doomed from inception.
Talking about the 'EU economy' is a figment of the imagination. Each country still has their own economy, and EU rules only complicate things. Yeah, they pay to be part of the EU, and yeah they sometimes get some of that payment back as a 'grant'. But I just see that as fiddling while Rome burns, TBH. And as an example, Greece got the skinny end of that lollipop, or look at how the EU interferes with Hungary, Romania, Slovakia polittics etc. (Democracy in action, really?)/
In terms of Russian birth-rates: it is a criticism to be levelled at any 'developed' nation. The only countries in the world that have positive birth-rates are African. So not fair pointing to Russia as having 'that problem' sounds a wee bit like propaganda - it's true, but it is just as true for any English-speaking nation, and China, and Japan, even India and anyone else, really (except for Africans).
"..ambitions of achieving a unified 'EU army' are doomed from inception".
"Talking about the 'EU economy' is a figment of the imagination".
Then, following this logic you could say that NATO is a figment of the imagination too. Which, problem solved!