re: #266 KGxvi

In fairness, there are 9 EU members that don’t use the Euro. The UK and Denmark have a special exemption under the original treaty creating the Euro. And the EU hasn’t actually tried to force any of the other seven members to adopt the currency.

The thing is, the EU has always been on a course towards a United States of Europe super-state. I’d argue that the EU is effectively a state under international law at this point, but the world just sort of pretends that it is not.

In some respects. But their approach to the refugee crisis also shows that they are sovereign states in that respect; Germany took more than its share while other states took few or almost none.