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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Neocon who wrote (116931)10/15/2003 6:05:33 PM
From: Noel de Leon  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
"Do small states, like Denmark, worry about the dominance of large states, like France and Germany?"

That question has many facets. The most obvious is the worry that the far right and the far left have that Denmark will lose its sovereignty, that in some way Denmark will melt away in the union.

Those politicians in the center of the political spectrum(would be considered far left in the USA) look at the union as a way to keep peace in Europe as well as a counter weight to the economic power of the US(Europe and the USA sell to each other) and the coming economic power of China(China sells to both the US and Europe). Here one sees the split between the population and the parliament. A narrow majority rejected the Euro in Denmark, a greater one did so in Sweden.
As you may well know Denmark has four conditions written into its participation in the union, no to: EU citizenship, Euro, military cooperation, and police and court cooperation. The Euro was brought to a referendum. Now the Convent(a kind of constitution) will be coming to a vote and the present government wants to keep its very restrictive immigration laws(they would probably be turned down by the EU court) but allow a greater police cooperation. This debate is just starting up and I expect it will be very interesting.

As to the "dominance" of France and Germany there are several views on this. Many consider their "dominance" to be an advantage since it counters the excesses that some states(Italy comes to mind) exercise. At the same time these same people will argue that checks and balances have to be kept in place to keep the larger states from dominating the smaller ones. Regularly the larger states bring up a proposal to remove the veto right that the smaller states have.

The problems associated with creating a union of multi cultural and multi lingual sovereign countries are not small. It seems to me that the general movement of the union is towards greater integration(slow but sure).
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