I'm thinking of airline-related matters such as the EU telling the government of Greece that it couldn't give money to Olympic, France was alleged to be subsidizing Air France, etc David R > 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?