[Assam] European Union and South Asian Federation

[kamal deka]

You have hit the home run.
India has fought four wars with Pakistan--one as late as 1999. Now,How
many European countries are out there, who are willing to cut each
other's throat these days? And talking about borders being kept
open,EU has one of the harshest Immigration Laws on the face of this
earth.European countries have a population pattern that is homogeneous
in terms of religion and culture.The following is just an example of
how an average European feels about Muslims:

"Europe becomes more and more a province of Islam, a colony of Islam."
So declares Oriana Fallaci in her new book, La Forza della Ragione,
or, "The Force of Reason." And the famed Italian journalist is right:
Christianity's ancient stronghold of Europe is rapidly giving way to
Islam. As Christianity falters,Islam is robust, assertive, and
ambitious. As European under reproduce at advanced ages, Muslims do so
in large numbers while young.Some 5% of the E.U., or nearly 20 million
persons, presently identify themselves as Muslims; should current
trends continue, that number will reach 10% by 2020. If non-Muslims
flee the new Islamic order, as seems likely, the continent could be
majority-Muslim within decades.

When that happens, grand cathedrals will appear as vestiges of a prior
civilization — at least until a Saudi style regime transforms them
into mosques or a Taliban-like regime blows them up. The great
national cultures — Italian, French, English, and others — will likely
to wither, replaced by a new transnational Muslim identity that merges
North African, Turkish, subcontinental, and other elements."

And what does communal harmony means? It is the spirit of tolerance
and assimilation that binds communities together.HOW DOES AN AVERAGE
PORKISTANI SHOWCASE HIS SECULAR VALUE ? By brandishing all
non-believers as KAFIRS OR INFIDELS !!
And people talking about BURY THE HATCHET? Must be living in a cuckoo land.
KJD


On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Ram Sarangapani <assamrs at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was actually waiting when this other shoe would drop? Didn't have to wait
> too long :-)
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> 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.
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> It's NOT as if South Asian nations don't know or understand the benefits of
> such cooperation.
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> --Ram
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> 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 the
>> 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 at the
>> 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 as an
>> 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 have
>> partly committed to the EU's economy and regulations: Iceland, which has now
>> applied for membership, Liechtenstein and Norway, which are a part of the
>> single market through the European Economic Area, and Switzerland, which has
>> similar ties through bilateral treaties.[35][36] The relationships of the
>> European microstates, Andorra, Monaco, San Marino and the Vatican include
>> the use of the euro and other areas of co-operation.[37]
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