The European Union should take a leap forward by restructuring itself politically using the successes and failures of the American Union as a guide. It should give Brussels sovereignty over all military and diplomatic activity. This would give it the power to act as a nation-state in relation to foreign states as is the case in the US. It should establish a federal court system and a supreme court to hear cases on appeal with the power to overturn state laws but it should allow states to hold referendums on any law overturned so that citizens could strike down an unwanted court decision. In the US the federal court system and the supreme court hand down judgments against state laws that are final. Commerce originally in the US was to be regulated by the Congress only among the states but its power was extended over the years to all commerce. In the EU all commerce should be free and unregulated as far as reasonably possible but no state should be allowed to impose tariffs on other state’s products and the free movement of capital and labor across all borders should be allowed. Creating an expanding money supply in a union of states is a major problem since states fear giving up the power to create money in their state and to control their banks. The EU should use the Federal Reserve Banking System of the US as a model. All state banks could continue as such or could opt to join a federal reserve system which is run by a private board of governors independent of all governments. Federal Reserve Banks would be established in each state to loan money to banks, guarantee deposits of individuals up to a certain amount, and supply liquidity and direct support to banks. The EU in this new form would need to tax income of individuals and corporations to fund itself but it could establish in advance that such taxes could never exceed 2 or 3 %.These steps would make the EU an effective rival of the US and make both unions conscious of the best practices in one another with a view to perhaps merging the two systems and making one union of 77 states. A union of such size would make all traditional wars preventable on our planet and it would have the means to seriously combat global warming and other threats to our globe’s health.
Daniel McNeill
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Daniel McNeill’s novella The End of All Beginnings is available at
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A powerful and very dramatic exploration of love and relations between
a 70-year-old man and four women, two sisters 18 and 19, their mother
46, and a lesbian friend 22. It is full of well-written dialogues between the five
In various situations including sexual relations. The drama moves fast right
from the start and it is impossible not to read it as quickly as possible (it
can be read in less than three hours} to an ending that is totally unexpected
and explosive. A complex drama that moves with its own momentum towards
one liberating ending to all its beginnings.
Daniel McNeill
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