[Assam] European Union and South Asian Federation

[Chan Mahanta]

> t's NOT as if South Asian nations don't know or understand the  
> benefits of
> such cooperation.


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On Jun 10, 2010, at 1:23 PM, Ram Sarangapani wrote:

> I was actually waiting when this other shoe would drop? Didn't have  
> to wait
> too long :-)
>
> India, Pak, etc have several such unions ... the SAARC, **SAFTA,  
> South Asian
> Economic Union and so forth.  In fact, there a some trade agreements  
> between
> Pakistan & India or B'Desh & India or Sri Lanka & India.
>
> It's NOT as if South Asian nations don't know or understand the  
> benefits of
> such cooperation.
>
>
> --Ram
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Dilip and Dil Deka <dilipdeka at yahoo.com 
> >wrote:
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>> I am sure most netters have read european history and know how  
>> viciously
>> the european tribes (and subsequently nations) fought for  
>> centuries. World
>> wars I and II were fought in Europe. If those people can form an  
>> economic
>> and political union for the sake of survival, what is wrong in  
>> expecting
>> India, Pakistan and Bangladesh (also Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan  
>> possibly)
>> to form a federation?
>> There are 27 members in the EU and it is growing.
>> Dilip
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>> European Union is composed of 27 sovereign Member States: Austria,  
>> Belgium,
>> Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland,  
>> France,
>> Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania,  
>> Luxembourg,
>> Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovak Republic,
>> Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.[30]
>> The Union's membership has grown from the original six founding
>> states—Belgium, France, (then-West) Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and  
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>> Netherlands—to the present day 27 by successive enlargements as  
>> countries
>> acceded to the treaties and by doing so, pooled their sovereignty in
>> exchange for representation in the institutions.[31]
>> To join the EU a country must meet the Copenhagen criteria, defined  
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>> 1993 Copenhagen European Council. These require a stable democracy  
>> that
>> respects human rights and the rule of law; a functioning market  
>> economy
>> capable of competition within the EU; and the acceptance of the  
>> obligations
>> of membership, including EU law. Evaluation of a country's  
>> fulfilment of the
>> criteria is the responsibility of the European Council.[32]
>> No member state has ever left the Union, although Greenland (an  
>> autonomous
>> province of Denmark) withdrew in 1985. The Lisbon Treaty now  
>> provides a
>> clause dealing with how a member leaves the EU.
>> There are three official candidate countries, Croatia, Macedonia and
>> Turkey. Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia and  
>> Iceland are
>> officially recognised as potential candidates.[33] Kosovo is also  
>> listed as
>> a potential candidate but the European Commission does not list it  
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>> independent country because not all member states recognise it as an
>> independent country separate from Serbia.[34]
>> Four Western European countries that have chosen not to join the EU  
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>> partly committed to the EU's economy and regulations: Iceland,  
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>> applied for membership, Liechtenstein and Norway, which are a part  
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>> single market through the European Economic Area, and Switzerland,  
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>> similar ties through bilateral treaties.[35][36] The relationships  
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>> European microstates, Andorra, Monaco, San Marino and the Vatican  
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>> the use of the euro and other areas of co-operation.[37]
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