In a message dated 8/24/03 11:23:06 PM Pacific Daylight Time, damiross2@xxxxxxxxxxx writes: > What I'm getting at is that the European countries who belong to the EU no > longer are sovereing nations. For example, France can make Italy change a > law if France doesn't like it Now you know that is not true. I did not think you were that ignorant. There are places in the EU that probably want the Netherlands to close down the coffeehouses, but it wont happen. There are also places that would love to see Germany stop rebuilding the East, also not going to happen. If France had so much control over another EU country, how come Spain and the UK sent troops to Iraq. Conversely, how come the Luftwaffe and the French military were not sent to Iraq at the behest of Tony Lapdog?