What are future threats of the European Union (EU)?
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Apathy and malaise same as in the recent pass
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I guess it's possible...the challenge the US faces is worsening education, lessened work ethic of the younger generation, and a warped view of the world, all combined with a complacency with a disturbing attitude like we're gauranteed to always stay on top.  At the same time, I can't imagine anyone in the EU ever willing to give up all those nice warm and fuzzy social benefits and looooong vacations. You can't run a competitive economy like that.  Look what's happened in France now, with the job reform riots, and the government caving in.  That's further compounded by a shrinking birth rate and dramatically changing demography.\n\nBut all this is irrelevent.  Even if Europe does get more powerful than the USA, it's not going to be inordinately more powerful.  In any case, who cares?  The real question to ask is: Not when, but how long until China, and perhaps any unions if forms in its region in the future, is more powerful than the US and the EU - combined?
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actually I think the answer is no, but negotiations are going to last 10 years or more from now, and we don't know how the situation will be in 10 years. Actually, Turkey doesn't completely match the Copenhagen criterias to join EU, they still lack some democracy aspects.\nRegarding economics cost for EU, actual EU balance will cover until 2012 (or 2013? dont remember..) next one will be 2013-2019, so Turkey would not be negotiating it, and the costs for EU will begin in 2020. Then, there's the "political" point of view; if EU is meant as a free trade area only, Turkey would have no problems to join, if it is meant like something more strict, well, there's also the cultural issue
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only if it contains threats
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I think by 2075 , 95% of all nations will be democracies of some kind. even China. Democracies do not fight democracies and are more safe to live in
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Kosovo's future status is as uncertain as it has been since the war. It is currently a UN-protectorate and is likely to remain so for quite some time. However if the Serbs arrest and extradite Radtko Mladic, the alleged war criminal, to the Hague tribunal, the EU will invite Serbia for EU accession talks and then, ups, the case of Kosovo will have to be resolved - the EU cannot possibly live with this tense situation inside its own borders! (Even though they do so with Cypros, but that's another case)
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The EU has been trying to get it's member states to adopt the EU constitution.People in many member states are afraid of unreasonable restrictions, a loss of power or autonomy,or losing national identity.
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In the developed half of Europe it would have to be the UK or Germany.  Don't forget there is a whole region in Eastern Europe that is growing much faster because it is either about to join the EU or has just joined.  The Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary are all doing well.  If you want something even more risky have a look at the Baltic Republics (Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia).  They have some of the highest growth rates in the world.
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I sure hope so .... I'm tired of everything ... do we get to go in the EU or do we don;t ... :))\n\nBut is i have to be objective ... we don't deserve to go in the EU ... we can not be compared with  Germany or Italy or Spain .. even if we have a poor country everybody still steals from it .. CORRUPTION everywhere ! this is the truth !
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European! (Euro-pean)
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France, by a wide margin.  They constantly try to bully the rest of Europe into doing things their way.  They threaten Eastern European countries with banishment from the EU if they don't vote France's way.  That idiot, Chirac, walked out on a speech by a French industrialist because the man dared to give it in English.  Talk about insecure!  They think they are still a world power when they haven't been since Napolean.
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Really???? Maybe later? Introduction and EU Objectives\nRussia is an important partner, with which there is considerable interest to engage and build a strategic partnership. Russia is the EU’s largest neighbour, brought even closer to the EU by enlargement. The European Security Strategy correctly situates Russia as a key player on geo-political and security issues at global and regional level.
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How what works, the world? I doubt it although they may have united to become the EU there is no sense of common history or common cause. I don't see too much cooperation in the EU.
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Main areas of EU legislation are on the four freedoms of the European Community: free movement of goods, services, persons and capital, which all facilitate a common market between member states.  The EU makes regulations (directly applicable to ms), directives (which require implementation), \ndecisions and recommendations which are more in the way of guidance.\n\nAn example of EU leg is Directive 2004/38 which deals with free movement of workers and their families across member states.\nCase law of similar nature is the Singh case, Humer, Bosman, etc.\n\nThe EU also legislates on Human Rights by way of the Convention on Human Rights which has been given effect to in the UK by the Human Rights Act.
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It should in January 2007, but in my oppinion many requests from the EU where unsolved (corruption, infrastructure, agriculture, medical issues, and i think some education) so it will be delayed
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Europeans are not interested in that other wise it would have happened a long time back.I think the mood in Turkey is also changing now.{THEY DO NOT WANT TO JOIN EU}
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NO.! Corruption.\nIn what has become a predictable annual event, the EU Court of Auditors, once again refusing to certify the EU accounts as legal and reliable, listed a catalogue of institutional problems in its report of 24th October 2006.\nThe Court found "weak internal controls for the majority of EU expenditure”, The Court also reported a "high incidence of errors in the underlying transactions" and that "overdeclarations and ineligible expenditure [ie fraud] continue to go undetected within the majority of EU expenditure areas.\nDid you know this?\nPerhaps the most disturbing part of the Amsterdam Treaty was its provisions for the legal system known as Corpus Juris to be introduced throughout the EU. (Corpus Juris can be introduced by Qualified Majority Voting, so the EU can introduce it even if we were to refuse it by a 100% majority in Westminster.)\n[Section II, Chapter 8, heading (d): "Measures for countering fraud against the financial interests of the Community"]\n\nCorpus Juris will set up a European Public Prosecutor with over-riding criminal law jurisdiction throughout Europe, initially on matters of fraud against the EU budget, later to be extended to all criminal activities, which will thus come within the EU purview. Habeas Corpus and Trial by Jury - rights enjoyed by Britons since Magna Carta - are explicitly to be abolished under these proposals. \n\n[ The proposals are being drawn up by EU Commission (XX DG) which details an EU criminal code and code of procedure. Article 26.1 explicitly provides for cases (where the sentence can be up to seven years) to be heard by Courts "consisting of professional judges, excluding simple jurors and lay magistrates."]\n\nThe implications of this proposal cannot be overemphasised. As Churchill wrote "...the great principle of Habeas Corpus and Trial by Jury ... are the supreme protection invented by the British people for ordinary individuals against the state. The power of the executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him judgment by his peers for an indefinite period, is in the highest degree odious, and is the foundation of all totalitarian governments."\n\n[ Winston Churchill, minute to the Home Secretary, 21 November 1943]\n\nThe obligation to conform to the requirements of the Amsterdam Treaty explains the Government's determination to press ahead with the abolition of the right to Trial by Jury for certain offences, despite defeat in the House of Lords and widespread opposition from lawyers and civil rights groups.\nVisit the website below,it certainly is an eye opener!!!