
Originally Posted by
WanChaiMiller
The word Empire seems to cause brexiteers to spontaneously combust.
"The Empire of Europe not a myth"!! Yet at no point in this piece does Verhofstadt describe the EU as an Empire. The myth is you trying to portray it as such.
Verhofstadt says the new world order is not based on nation states and countries but Empires.* He describes India, China and USA as Empires.* But, crucially, he says we Europeans can only defend our interests against thrm by doing it together 'in a European framework in the European Union'.* Put this together with his initial statement that the EU needs to reform and modernise it does not sound like a call to build an Empire to me.
I totally agree with him btw.
Opinions BIG LAD please dont wrap them up as fact (I was told once by a very big guy from the official site).