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Re:French election: Macron defeats Le Pen by sangnoir on Sunday May 07, 2017 @03:58PM (#14287279)
> The EU will fail if it continues like this, with massive centralization of power.

I keep hearing this argument, but I've never heard any supporting arguments. What evidence is there that "sovereignty" is optimal at the administrative scale of modern-day nation-states and not EU-sized scales, or going the other direction, at provincial, city or district levels?

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Re:French election: Macron defeats Le Pen by dragonwriter on Sunday May 07, 2017 @04:05PM (#14287308)
The EU, incidentally, is the scale of a large modern day nation-state. It's obviously a bigger scale then it's own constituent nation-states, but then so are China, India, Ruusia, and the USA.
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Re:French election: Macron defeats Le Pen by polotics on Sunday May 07, 2017 @04:58PM (#14287630)
The evidence is to be found in the study of monetary policy. Depending on your political inclination, I suggest a web search for late Thatcher speeches, or Varoufakis books. Ideally, both.
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Re:French election: Macron defeats Le Pen by sangnoir on Sunday May 07, 2017 @05:08PM (#14287687)
Thatcher only convinces me Manchester would have been better off as a city-state, setting it's own monetary policy instead of Thatcherism.
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