Quote Originally Posted by forwardmagpie View Post
If you think the current EU is not akin to a political union but is an unfounded rumour we will have to disagree.
No, I do think it's a political union, just not a superstate. As I said, I see it as a participatory exercise of the countries within. In other words it's a union of countries with a supporting bureaucracy, rather than a federal union (like the US, or for that matter Germany).