Originally Posted by
Palal
The US took a few decades to become a federation. The EU is going that route, but there is quite a bit of opposition, as states are afraid to lose their sovereignty.
I'm not quite so sure that the EU will follow the American example. As things stand already, the agreements reached by the EU are not laws in the American sense, but rather "frameworks" that states can adopt to their own systems.
And generally, while, someone from California and someone from New York both consider themselves American, people here may say they are European, but their nationality is their country, not Europe. I do not see that changing at all.