Bald Eagle,

Having read your anti-European posts in several other threads, there's probably very little to be gained from debating the issues with you. Your position appears be totally intransigent and myopically entrenched.

However, a couple of points:

That's the trouble with the EU: nobody feels European... folks react for the good of their country

I feel European. Unless you've spoken to every citizen of every European country to garner their views, that is an absurd and (if I might add) stupid thing to say.

What is your country? Is it England? Is it Britain? Is it the British Isles or is it the UK?

Wilfried makes a very valid point. Europe's history, in terms of international conflict, is not one to be envied. The EU (in it's broadest sense) has ensured continued, and continuing peace in central Europe. The thought of the UK going to war with France or Germany is now unthinkable. Is that a bad thing?

Of course the EU isn't perfect. Who ever said it was? It is however a great improvement over European relations 100 or even 50 years ago.

Jim