What do you guys think about it? Please make your comments considering both economic and military strength, capability of effecting world politics, raw material production, resources, manpower...
I know there are many good strategists here and i would like to have their feedbacks on this issue...
In terms of the EU being a "major power" or not, IMO it is/they are NOT a major power. My reason for having this opinion is that there is still (again IMO) a lack of overall unity within the EU itself. The EU is itself still essentially an economic bloc, but is still a collection of member-states. As such while considerable progress has been made in terms of the easing of border crossing and migration within the EU, there are still (some) different goals in terms of economic, diplomatic, social and military objectives.
The potential for the EU to be a major power is absolutely there, particularly since several current members of the EU are already themselves major powers namely France, Germany and the UK. The addition of ~two dozen other member-states, and the aggregate totals in terms of population, national resources, industrial capacity and technological base would IMO be sufficient to reach "superpower" status.
In order for that to happen though, it is likely that the various national identities would need to become less important, i.e. instead of someone responding, "I am British," or "I am French," if asked where they were from, they would need to respond, "I am European."
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