Should Latin America join together to form a UNION just like the EU and AU? If so, why?
435573
That would be awesome.  They already have many Panamerican unions that are devoted to health and sports.  It may be the only way that Latin America will ever succeed, and stop being categorized as the "third world."  Did you ever hear of Francisco Morazan?  He lead the revolution in most of Latin America from Spain. If you look at almost any Latin American country's history, you will see that their Independence date is almost the same, and most have monuments and other memorials to Francisco Morazan.
1075812
Maybe. Paraguay couldn't get out of their (pretty ordinary) group and Uruguay lost to Australia in qualifying... maybe they deserve +.5 representatives but there are only 9 nations in South America and it's weird that more then half qualify.
787
no, it would be a terrible idea, even though the euro is doing good despite the fact that some of the nations that joined had poor economies, the majority of the economies that joined were well standing by themselves.  If we made a world currency than we would have to take into account the poor economies that would join (i.e. africa, mexico, most of south america etc..) \nwhich would drag down the value of the global currency and hurt everyone in the end.
648857
At they very least I would like to see them join for an Amer Cup for all South, Central and NA teams that would rival the Euro Cup.  If could like the Euro Cup be played on even years between World Cups.\n\nAs far as World Cup Qualifying it would be interesting and would definately put some more presure on Mexico and the US in terms of qualifying but there are so many teams in Concacaf I'm not sure how the Qualifying rounds would be setup to make it work out.
763780
There is a scholarship for Latin American students who want to pursue their university studies in the European Union. It's called the Alban Scholarship. You can find the link here in this directory: http://www.macquil.com/scholarships.php
175728
Never, I think so. In Spain, Latinamericans are who most inmigrate and live there. Mostly Africans who try to inmigrate are catched by police in the Gibraltar Strait. Also, Africans that inmigrate are from Sub-Saharian Africa, who is mostly Catholic and not from North Africa. I think with Latins, Spain would become "Al-Colombia" or "Al-Ecuador","Al-Argentina",Al-Venezuela",etc.
924302
It certainly could in law. Federation is similar to the EU as far as my reading of it goes. But it would lose far more than it would gain. Irish perspective, by the way, but the yanks are not up yet 1052UT so what the 'eck
408645
My friends, it is solidarity of labor we want. We do not want to find fault with each other, but to solidify our forces and say to each other: "We must be together; our masters are joined together and we must do the same thing."\n\nMother Jones
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In an ideal world, there is a chance what you suggest might work. But humans being what they are, it will never work. Throughout history, there have been civil wars and revolutions. Humans like to distinguish themselves from others. The us versus them is a very strong sense. If there is no other country to call “them” we’ll pick other attributes such as where the others live or the color of their skin.\nLook at Africa, anyone with ½ brain can see that Africa can easily become a major world power if they got a modicum of unity. Not the entire continent needs to become 1 country. As long as they form a union similar to the EU, they will be able to go mush farther. What that would mean is that the small rulers in the many African countries would have to give up the power they have gained, in many cases by force, to a higher form of government. You will see far more cases like what happened in Ethiopia and Eritrea before you see East and West Germany type stories.\nI love your idea in the way that 1 global government would focus on global matters instead of local ones. But unfortunately, I can not see it happening.\nMuslims unite Government and religion into their government. The developed countries separate the 2. Will you force separation of church and state on Muslims or would you tell America they have been wrong by separating religion and government.\nI think a good step towards a united world is education. Starting from America, people should be encouraged to learn about and from other people in the world. Maybe in a few generations, people will come to see the world as what it is, the only planet that we are likely to live on for a long time.
748114
yes as long as it is a good constitution that involves giving home rule to all states in the union including the suppressed states eg Catalonia and also including all of the former soviet union.\nit will require a dictatorial government in the Early years to hold the country together
99957
each other countries in the EU have their own army.  THey could never form a EU army their are to many view points for it to work.  Look at Iraq Britian Poland Beligum and Spain supported the US. France and Germany opposed it and hurt the US.
701789
To be perfectly honest with you, regardless of what you hear, they are both mutually working on the establishment of the North American Union, the dissolution of international borders between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, to make the North American continent effectively one nation. Just another step in the establishment of the New World Order, one world government.
215838
Its up in the air at the moment.  they have to meet certain requirement, prerequisites.. They do have things in their culture that Europe doesnt want in the union so there are talks and negotiations.  We should see something about it soon but not sure when.
461213
Hmm,\n\nThis is a good question. For starters I'm going to assume that by Europe you mean the European Union, since some countries in Europe don't belong to it.\n\nThe European Union (EU) is an intergovernmental and supranational union of 25 democratic member states having territory on or sociopolitical connections with the European continent. (www.wikipedia.org)\n\nThe Union nowadays has a common single market, [2] consisting of a customs union, a single currency (the euro) managed by the European Central Bank (adopted by 12 of the 25 member states), a Common Agricultural Policy, a common trade policy, a Common Fisheries Policy, and a Common Foreign and Security Policy. (www.wikipedia.org)\n\nIn lamer terms, it is a group of European countries (mostly for the moment) that got together and decided to unify their economies in one single currency also unifying certain policies (like trade, immigration, etc..).\n\nIt is very interesting since the different countries continue being politically independent but have certain unified policies. As opposed to the States within the USA which depend of a Federal Government.\n\nI would say it is an "in between" or hybrid of Unified States under federal law and a Free Trade agreement, like Cafta or NAFTA.\n\nI hope this answers your question.
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On 9 December 2005, Venezuela was accepted as a new member, but it will be officialized in late 2006. After changes in Venezuelan policy to adhere to exisiting Mercosur rules, Venezuela will become a voting member. On 30 December 2005 it was announced that Bolivia would be invited to join as a full member. The organization has a south and central America integration vocation.\n\nSome South Americans see Mercosur as giving the capability to combine resources to balance the activities of other global economic powers, perhaps especially the United States and the European Union. The organization could also potentially pre-empt the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), however, over half of the current Mercosur member countries rejected the FTAA proposal at the IV Cumbre de las Americas (IV Summit of the Americas) in Argentina in 2005.
862891
the union is the united states. they want to make it more perfect. yay.
1134425
There are not any. Europe is a group of nations which have grouped together to form a union, hence the term E.U. Industries are nationalised within each country or member state, and belong to that memebr state, not to the E.U directly. For this to happen the E.U would have to become a super state with a president/leader. Fortunately (I am a nationalist) this ideology was stopped when France and other member states voted against the European Constitution a couple of years ago.