The EU and WTS prophecy

The European Union does not exist on the American political landscape. At a time when many foreign-policy experts are looking toward a multipolar world with the EU and China as two of the important poles, when foreign-policy issues are more important in the U.S. presidential election than at any time in recent memory, George W. Bush has not even mentioned the EU in any speech given in 2004. Not once. (http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/10/18/news/edslaughter.html)

The EU surpasses the United States in a number of key areas, and has the potential to overtake it in many other issues. The wikipedia, using the CIA as its source, states that EU GDP is 13,92 trillion dollars, whereas US GDP is "only" 12,438 trillion.

EU companies and firms are rapidly buying up their US counterparts (Cadbury-Schweppes buying 7Up and Dr Pepper for example). European companies such as Nokia, Vodaphone, Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz, Ikea, and Nestlé are doing coniderably better than their US counterparts. Airbus has recently had a string of sucesses over Boeing.

Europeans have overcome their differences to form a borderless Union, European citizenship, single currency, a rotating EU president, (and they almost got round to having a constitution). The Euro is far stronger than the almighty Dollar.

It then follows, that the EU should feature strongly in a King of the North/South debate in one of the Society's future publications.

The EU and WTS prophecy

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