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[โ€“] [email protected] 42 points 2 days ago (11 children)

Nah we just need a fancy team name for the not-absolute-fuck-head countries.

I mean EU is Europe and I fucking love you guys but down here in Australia we can't just up and move the continent to Europe.

I don't think the name should be dependent on membership like BRICS or whatever because you don't want to have to rebrand when you kick someone out or let someone in.

I think it should include a word like collaborative because honestly, that's what it's about - we're better off working together.

It's also important to choose a name with a catchy acronym that isn't already taken.

Maybe Collaborative Union of Nice Terran States.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

A-tier shitpost ๐Ÿ‘

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

EBU EU whats the difference?

If Australia can be part of the Eurovision song contest so It can be of the EU. Also everybody already asume anyway that you are just Austria.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

You just answered yourself. Just call it CUNAFHC - Collaborative Union of Not-Absolute-Fuck-Head-Countries

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

But its about European values. Compassion, democracy, empathy, forgiveness and freedom

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

As a European, I don't think we can claim exclusive ownership of those concepts.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I still would not call them European values, it comes of as values that exist in Europe and nowhere else. And I'd rather have compassion, democracy etc everywhere.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How about just, free world. The rest are fascist dictatorships anyway.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

We're also democratic, we should call it the free democratic coalition of states.

Its not like there is any bad precedent in using names like this, like democratic republic of korea, or just referring to USA as "land of the free"...

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Not true, there's also we poor countries who can't afford hanging around with the nice guys in the block

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Let's go CUNTS!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It doesn't really make sense for Canada to be a member of the EU simply because Canada isn't in Europe. What we could do is grant Canada a deal similar to what Norway has now. We're one of four members of EFTA, which are part of the EEA without being EU members.

I must admit that my knowledge of Canada is shallow at best but my impression is that its overall values align well with western European democracies.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

This is exactly what I was thinking.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Actually, the EU has a whole bouquet of options for countries that want to cooperate with it. It can be trade agreements, free trade area, currency union, Schengen Area and so on. Norway, Switzerland and Turkey are examples of different degrees of associated status.

But be aware that any full EU membership would non-negotiable include the right of not only companies but also people to move freely in the common area - yes, that would mean that any EU citizen has the right to move to and live in Canada, and vice versa, as long as these persons can support themselves.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 65 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Cool. I'm not offended by that. 28th member sounds respecta. 51st state, not so much. ๐Ÿ˜‚

[โ€“] [email protected] 49 points 2 days ago

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[โ€“] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Canada joins EU, blue states join Canada. Bada bing, bada boom

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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (8 children)

As much as I like Canada compared to the US, they are not European by any stretch of the imagination. I'd be for free trade and free movement as a beginning, but part of the European Union is a bit much.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (3 children)

It would mean replacing The CAD with the EUR, would be kinda funny to see EU flags on the border between the US and Canada though...

[โ€“] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago (2 children)

In fact, the following EU countries do not (yet) use the euro, but their own currency:
Bulgaria
Czech Republic
Hungary
Poland
Romania
Sweden

[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

Denmark has a dispensation they arranged when forming the EU.

Sweden and the other countries does not.

When joining the EU you are commited to switching to the Euro when you have fullfilled the criteria for doing so, Sweden has decided to not fullfill the criterias required and will therefore keep the Krona for the forseeable future.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

In theory they're legally obligated to switch one day. In practice Romania is being blocked by other EU members.

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You can still decorate your Euros how you want, so we could keep our beavers and loons.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You have loons on your doubloons? ๐Ÿ‘€

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Yes, we call our dollar coins "loonies" as a result. By analogy, the bimetallic $2 coin is the "toonie" for two.

That looks like a joke written out, but it is not.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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