Oh shut up Tarmac! you france loving *****!
GO eat snails with the french!!
I do not think comparing the EU to the US is a very good comparison?
Maybe I am wrong on this and basing it on how I feel now. But I consider myself an American, I am from cali but I do not look at someone from montana as anything less then me. We are all citizens of the USA and the state is just where we live.
Any pride I have is being from the US, not cali.
Maybe this was different a long time ago... back before the civil war, or maybe I am just odd. But all my friends are like this too.
I would think that national best interest from the various countries is going to sabatage the EU pretty badly in many cases.