Thursday, 19 March 2015

The first European Union

My chum Andrew MacDowall has allowed me to copy this, his latest Facebook status. He is a journalist based in Belgrade.
Chat with a Belgrade taxi driver today: "We [Yugoslavia] were the European Union before the European Union!" He has a point, but perhaps not a reassuring one.

3 comments:

  1. Anonymous20 March 2015 at 17:40

    I think the Austro-Hungarian empire was the first European Union.

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  2. Marc Cannizzo20 March 2015 at 19:12

    I'd go with the Holy Roman Empire.
    marc

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  3. Anonymous21 March 2015 at 10:35

    There is also the point that Switzerland - aka Confoederatio Helvetica - is the only real European Union.

    I've long thought the real question is not << When will Switzerland be ready to join the European Union? >> but << When will the EU be ready to join Switzerland? >>

    Mark Griffith

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