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This is CBS. I'm the world. I'm John Bachelor.

Europe, the European Union, 27 sovereign powers working together at least since the late 20th century.

Stanley Pinyal helps me to understand the European Union's ambitions now here in the 21st century.

And asking the question, is Europe a state?

Can it function as a state with a capital in Brussels, sometimes in Strasbourg?

Stanley is also Charlemagne. This is a column continued in the Economist magazine for many decades.

And it is my window on the European Union. Stanley, a very good day to you and a good year, the ambition to be a state.

The European Union expresses itself in many voices. Does it have a voice that is the state voice? Good day to you.

The EU has many of the trappings of a state. It has a flag. It has a capital in Brussels. It has a parliament.

It has political institutions. But what it doesn't have is that sort of country status that a place like America has the United States or India or even other big, big other federated states.

And the reason for that, obviously, a historical Europe is in a process of integration, but started very much with 27 now 27 different members who agreed to do some things together, but there's still very many things that they like to keep for themselves.

So when it comes to regulating global business, for example, they might all choose to do it together when it comes to having a currency, the euro, many of them do it together, not all 27.

But there are other things like foreign affairs or social spending or education in which the each member state is is still jealously guarding that that core competence.

And the history of Europe really since the Second World War has been the construction of this super state as some detractors call it and the speed and the willingness that people have to move towards a single federal government federal state.

What I learned from the book, Stanley, is Master of Treaty, late 20th century, 1991, Euro, 1999, late 20th century. And here we are now two decades, three into three decades later.

And Europe is not one voice. And I thought that was I can think of that as a strength. It does resemble in some aspects, federalism in the United States.

I, I confidently say Texas does not speak the same language as Illinois, for example. All right, so that can be seen as a strength. However, there are, there are obvious problems and you name one of them migration.

Is that the exception that proves the rule that Europe has not worked together?

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