Yes I do, however I do not wish it to be so.

It may take sometime, but I think that is all but unstopable now yep :-(

You will be assimilated. That will be 50 euros for my answer.

I think it will be so,for the Eurodollar is strong and it would be to their advantage to unite and would become a world economic force.

Unlike some others here I don't see this happening in the foreseeable future. The current situation is that not all member states use the euro currency and the proposed new constitution has led to a great deal of controversy, to say the least.

It's another step toward the New World Order....elimination of nation/states. Money is the universal language....

It seems they are heading toward this "global" thing that is really the destruction of the free world if it continues. The whole global aspect of being united under one governing body is too Orwellian for me. I'm glad I'm not in one of those countries being swallowed up in the EU.

I'm UK and I would vote to come out of the European Union, all I am seeing is negativity and France and Germany wanting to rule the rest :o(

I see it the exactly opposite way. I think the EU the NAFTA block and ASEAN are the 3 core blocks, stepping stones on the way to a global "government". I don't think a new system of authority, if it spanned the globe would be anywhere as coercive as the states of today and yesterday. For one thing nation-states exist primarily as a vehicle of imposing and at the same time countering war and separation, facts of life that, in the developed world at least, are becoming rarer and rarer. A global government would be so weakened by the continuing trends towards decentralization and privatization, that although it would have a larger budget than any current nation-state, it would also have to oversee a much larger population and land area, so the "density" of government presence would overall be less, I believe. But to answer your question. Yes the EU will have to come even more integrated. Whether that new entity can be called a "country" really depends on what one means by country.

If by "one country" you mean "one people with one culture, one national identity, and one language", then NO, not in this century. If by "one country" you mean "1 centralized State and no intermediate jurisidictions with substantial autonomy", then again, NO, not in this century. If by "one country" you mean "under one Federal authority with enumerated but imperial powers", then the answer is, "What are you talking about? That's what it is now." BTW, Euro-dollars are NOT the same thing as Euros. The former are US Dollars in deposited in European banks. The latter are EU currency.

i hope not it would be a shame to loss the indervisuality of each country and once you've handed over sovrenty of your country it's very hard to get it back.Which is why we should of had a referedum on the lisborn treaty.

Yeah and secretly our government is planning to have a North American Union. Why do you think they're not securing our borders? They want us to be one with Mexico and Canada.

It is already an economic and political entity. It's the cultural barriers and the language that will not make it so in the near future.

Well, if it follows the path of the United States, which started out in much the same way as a confederation of individual "states" with individual governments -- eventually, one or multiple countries will try to leave and either a civil war will ensue (as it did in the US) or it will be allowed to slowly break up over an extended time. We'll see, I guess. My guess is that it will break up over a period of 200 years.

In the long run yes. You can't stop progress, whether you like it or not. The days of living in isolation are long over. We live in a very international world. There is no need to be afraid of losing national identity. That is just an ever changing state, in the long run nations are irrelevant.

No .... or maybe it will ,minus the UK. The UK always manages to spoil the EU party! (as history of the EU shows)

very possibly although it would become I think a federal country. I would absolutely hate for this to happen as my ancestors have fought to defend my country from the french , spanish ,Germans and others for a thousands years with a few peace times in between and to just effectively give up your country to a bunch of people who aren't really anything like your own is in my view disgusting.

No there will be civil war before that happens. Too many ideaologies all mixed in together. We already are seeing the cracks appearig in this "paper tiger."

I hope this will never come. This would be the worst thing that ever could happen to some countries. It would be a real desaster.

Absolutely NO. People are that much different and bias are that strong that it will never be possible to unite european countries. The differences between some nations are bigger than between the people in central Africa and the Eskimos.

The bias and hostilities among the big european nations have increased that much within the last 50 years and get worse from day to day so that I think there will be never any way to a common state however it might look like. French and British will stay enemies to Germany as long as both countries will exist and it is nothing but a mere fiction to believe that these hostilities will ever end. Germans will stay the eternal enemies for the British and French and without Germany I think a common nation in Europe will never get true. And as far as I can see the French and British have their big problems as well, so that I rather believe in a community consisting of Germany, the Benelux, Austria, Switzerland, Italy , Spain, Portugal,Czechoslovakia and Hungary and the rest of all the others we leave outside and let them stay with their bias and hatred alone. With France and GB Europe never will be created.

I was in Belgium on a EU parlament meeting and asked the same question, they weren't even hesitating to answer, it was NO,never.

Not as long as it's full of fail and AIDS.

It probably won't happen during my lifetime, but it seems to be headed in that direction, with the currency ("Euros") and with border crossings becoming easier. +5

The biggest problem of Europe is consisting in the fact that there are different languages in different countries. In regard of the different languages every discussion among the different countries and people is clearly impossible. So people in Europe have an extreme difficult problem to understand each other. The French do not speak anything else but French and in Britain any other European language is a dead loss. So the people and much more the governments have extreme communication difficulties. In addition there are extremely severe differencies in culture and mentality which base on a series of wars among some European countries over centuries and which are still in some European countries extremely actual including all bias and hostilities which were produced over centuries. Most countries in Europa are not able to overcome their bad memories of the past and most countries in Europe are even enforcing in their countries their old bias and hostilities which were grown over centuries. So there is not any kind of any common sense which you would need for any kind of community. And up today most countries invest more energy into the contrasts to other other countries than ever seeking common interests. The EU therefore is not a community where different countries have found their common interests but much more it is a community where everybody fights aginst the other countries. Even under the impression of the actual crisis the European countries were not able to find a common solution but much more every country decides at its own. The rifts between the different nations based on their long history seems to have increased during the foundation of the EU and I think meanwhile most countries have understood that it was a good idea but not more. I think it is completely impossible that we ever will have a Europe with united different countries. So, I am quite sure that the EU will disband in the short future because most people do not want such a political Union. Most people in Europe want to have their own state with their own government and with their own administration. But it seems to me quite probable that after a disband of the EU some European countries could create a new EU which is much smaller and whee they try to avoid the mistakes they have made in the past. A new EU would be smaller and probably more democratic and I think they would clear the question of the language before a foundation and watch much more closer which other countries can affiliate or not. This is also the solution that most of the people inside the EU would prefer and forsee. But I am very sure that the EU as it is now will not last for long as the contrasts are to big among most of the countries which are now inside the EU. The EU in its actual size and its extremely different interests can not work and that seems meanwhile obvious to everybody.

If it ever would happen, I am sure that Britain is not a part of it. Britain will always stay for its own and I have my doubts if Britain will stay any longer a member of the EU. If they do not leave by themselves I think they risk that they are excluded. The French and Italian government are aleady thinking about such a possibility. As Sarkozy said, he is fed up with the British.

I think it could be really great if EU become one country! I mean without losing each countrys own unique culture, and still with different languages, of course. Actually I kind of already consider EU as one country, sometimes I forget it isn't. I think there would be a lot of benefits if it did. So my answer to your question is: yes! :)

omg, whats wrong with britian? and france? and for some reason now also germany?they are all some of my favorite countries :o it could really strength europe to become one country.. I am so sick of hearing about the US being the "major power" as they consider themselves to be. they always overestimate themselves.. no offense, i like lots of things in the us, but still. stop ... fortunately have they lost a lot of their "power" . ooh and also al their TV shows and their movies!! it is all like ONE BIG commercial of US, and it al look so great in it, and then you come visit it and it's just the oppoisite.. (I was dissappointed when I visited the us this summer!) and all the happy-ending thing.. cute, really, but too much.. and their "feelings-porn" (their constant crying in every show) orrrrgg shallow, shallow, shallow. europe do not become like that :) - A little digression, hope you didn't mind :)