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Yes, agreed.

Times change, if independent sovereign countries want to become members of the EU, and it suits all parties, how can you say "no, we had a Gentlemen's agreement with Russia 2 decades ago. You can't become part of our club.......ever"

I guess, the EU wasn't much of an issue till it started to expand east (along with NATO) They had their little gang, Poland, East Germany, Romania etc then they all upped and said "we've always hated you, we want to join the fun gang over the wall" No wonder they're a bit sensitive and...

I suppose imagine if one by one all the South American countries starting from the bottom, ie Chile and Argentina started to become communist and asked to join the Warsaw pact, until Mexico voted to do it and Russian soldiers were doing exercises in Guadalahara. That's probably how the...

What Europe?

It's pretty good at cutting down on wars though, in Europe apart from the Balkans there hasn't been a war worthy of the name since ww2. Tying together the big powers economically, notably Germany and France means they/we are unlikely to go to war. So far it's worked. Don't underestimate the...

As a bit of background info for the Americans i wiki'ed up some stuff. Denmark wanted to join the EU at the same time as Britain (and Ireland) because of the export of goods to GB was so important to the Danish economy (bacon for the most part I assume) which they would have lost if Britain had...

I suppose if you wanted to proclaim yourself a citizen of the world or something you could. Denmark is in the EU, is on continental mainland Europe, and most tellingly won the European football championship in 1992 beating the Germans in the final. As I'm sure you remember and still celebrate...

C'mon Stig you're as European as the rest of us.