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I am aware of that, but my prediction is that they will be slowly less and less sovereign over time and at one point there will be one unified european superstate. Who knows, maybe German will become the main language?



No, english is the neutral communication language european wide. One of the major players extending their language union wide (France, Italy, Germany) is not possible. It also wouldn't make sense. One romanic language would be easier to learn for the whole romanic language family. And eastern europe would inevitable and rightfully so feel alienated.

Such imperialistic nonsense is just eating resources and getting nowhere. That road would certainly lead to resentment and then a fracturing of the EU.


english as a language is not really neutral (but neither are other languages)

but then, with great britain leaving the EU, english became a much more neutral option than it was before.

however i would interpret the parent comments in the light of popularity. german and french may dominate the EU culturally without intending to do so. so it is reasonable to ask.

putting this down as imperialistic nonsense suggests a political motivation that i just can't read from the parent comment


Your question sounds imperialistic. There are more people speaking a Romance language (French, Romanian, Italian, Spanish, Catalan) than a Germanic one. And the cherry on top of the cake... what about the Slavic ones? EU will be a federation like Switzerland is.


What mechanism do you propose causes Switzerland, which is 100% sovereign (and even isn't part of the EU, despite all their neighbors being such), to become "less and less sovereign over time"? Who rules them? How? Why?


https://www.dw.com/en/switzerland-ignores-eu-deadline-for-tr...

The EU is obviously Switzerland's biggest trading partner, and whatever trade is subject to rules and regulations they would negotiate with each other. But guess who has the upper hand in negotiations, if you guess the side with more money and the bigger market, i.e. the bigger economy, correct.

I do find it strange that Switzerland allows anyone from the EU to come and live there if they have a job in the country (AFAIK this includes menial jobs like being a waiter). maybe it was something the EU offered as a package that the country had to take as a whole. In return obviously Swiss people are allowed to live and work anywhere in the EU as well. More on that: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54316316

So in short, Switzerland is sovereign to do what it wants, but going too much against the will of its big brother would damage itself as well. And I imagine if the big brother decides for something new, Switzerland doesn't have unlimited power to say otherwise.


The EU is the UK's biggest trading partner, but that didn't stop us leaving after we were already in (sadly).

There's a long history of people overestimating the importance of economic considerations in international relations. See e.g. all of the people who thought that the First World War couldn't happen because it would be an economic disaster. Turns out that it did, and was.


It's part of the trade agreement with the EU.

https://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/countries-and-regions/coun...


This argument about switzerland becoming part of Eu because of trade, is like argying that Mexico or Canada is becoming part of US


There are considerations amongst the Swiss to gain full EU membership. I don't know whether they are a majority though.


Nop, definitely not. We (i.e swiss people, not me specifically) rejected it multiple times and that's clearly not going to change in the near future.




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