Talk:European Union/Archive 14

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Previous Discussions:

Archive 1 (pre-2004)
(three pillars?, right to reside, sui generis, Members section, Map, Applying Country template, Accession votes, Mangled Map, Territories not in EU, Gibralter, History of EU)

Archive 2 (Jan-Apr 2004)
(UK and EU, Three organisations, Languages, The motto, Country?, Map, GDP billion / trillion, Number of citizens?, msg box, Capital)

Archive 3 (Apr-May 2004)
(Currencies in the union?,Timezones, Treaties, right to reside (post 2004), Gibraltar, Media:Image:Europeanunion 25.png, In The News, Who pays for the EU and how?, Freedom to live and work, GDP per capita, Methods)

Archive 4 (May-Jun 2004)

Archive 5 (Jun-Dec 2004)

Archive 6 (Dec-2004 Aug 2006)

Archive 7 (Aug 2006 Dec 2006)

Regional Blocks: African Union

Under the "Comparison with other Regional Blocks" economically, it seems that the AU (African Union) is missing?68.98.236.175 06:25, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Reliability of GDP (PPP)?

Chinese GDP(PPP) goes in EU. after four years. Will you be true? If I continue an anual rate of 10% growth. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 222.146.220.31 (talk) 10:36, 9 December 2006 (UTC).

European Identity

Part of the process of building a national identity for the European Union will be to produce a history of Europe that justifies the EU's existence.

How about "millenia of war"? Is that justification enough for a peaceful union?Stassa 14:45, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

The quoted sentence seems to have been dropped into its section with little regard to the flow of the article. More importantly, it's dripping with POV and begs all sorts of questions. The purpose of this article is to review what the EU is, has been and may become, on the basis of published sources. It is not its business to say or imply that the EU is a good or bad thing, or that particular forms of future development are or are not desirable. Countersubject 15:26, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Agree. It's extremely POV. Delete it. Indisciplined 14:58, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Bugs

The Lithuania link on the Economic Variation section of the main article is displayed in Chinese characters! (Mozilla 2.0/ UTF 8.0 encoding)

Fixed the template. Someone rewrote Lithuania with Chinese characters. Gdo01 05:48, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

French Guiana

Isn't it a bit odd to show French Guiana on the map of EU counties, even though it is technically part of France.

And France is part of the EU (so by extension, so is French Guiana). What's your point? - ^Рэд_хот^{(t • c • e)} 22:40, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

You know, maybe we should have a map showing all the overseas dependancies of Europe. I mean, if French Guiana is there, why not New Caledonia or Réunion? CeeWhy2 10:54, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

French Guyana and Réunion have been included in EU treaties. They should both be shown on the map. New Caledonia has a special status and is not part of EU.Michel Boulanger 01:07, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Whole section removed???!

Why is the whole "Institutions and legal framework" section removed currently?!?!? Alinor 13:57, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

It was deleted by an IP and not reverted completely by Antivandalbot. Its now restored. Gdo01 14:04, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

What is the 'Free Institute of Economic Research'?

This unaccredited institute has been putting articles on subjects like Welfare Economics, European Union, and related. I have tried to find about them online, to no avail. It is a breach of NPOV to use wikipedia for self-promotion and advance of private agendas.

History and origins

I dont think mentioning anything prior to European Coal and Steal Industry is necessary. I have many academic books charting the history of the EU and none of the content pre-dates the 20th centuary. Alex Lickorish —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.5.42.1 (talk) 22:09, 7 December 2006 (UTC).

Too Long

I think the article is still a bit too long. Don't you think there are some things we could take out ot possibly shorten it? Things that belong more in subarticles. I think it's important to keep articles a good length. Any ideas anyone? Brainboy109 December 12, 2006 16:36 (UTC)

New map.

I figure we should have a new map ready for when Romania and Bulgaria join. Zazaban 19:26, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Done. --Reconfirm your strategy 20:01, 17 December 2006 (UTC)File:EU 2007 map.png

There is an excellent official one at http://www.europa.eu/abc/european_countries/index_en.htm

© European Communities, 1995-2006 Reproduction is authorised, provided the source is acknowledged, save where otherwise stated.

USA vs EU

EU can surpass America’s global leadership in near future. This article needs to expand this idea. --Reconfirm your strategy 20:21, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

It would be helpful if you were to define your terms, in an NPOV way. Countersubject 21:21, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

USA and EU don't need to rival each other Somethingoranother 19:44, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

The EU cannot surpass the US. The US economy is growing much faster. The only reason why the EU is keeping up is due to the fact that they keep tacking on little countries. This notion cannot even be considered until and if this organisation becomes a nation.

Any possibility of a political union between the US and the EU?

January 1st

We should get ready for the new states Romania and Bulgaria joining on January 1st. Somethingoranother 19:46, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

New Map for Member States and Enlargement is needed

We could do with a new map for this section. Somethingoranother 21:28, 28 December 2006 (UTC)