... of unification between individually sovereign nations into a collective body, sufficient to make that body a workable whole. A fully integrated European Union could be seen to have two possible outcomes, either a Federalist or "stewed" union, where all member-States give up their individual sovereignty and form a superstate that would be an economic world power, or a confederalist or "salad bar" union, where ... each member state has its own place in a continental alliance, maintaining national sovereignty and individually contributing, through trade and cooperation, to form a greater w...

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