This is partly based on the existence and strength of federal forces, but even more so on the self-definition of the state forces. If the state forces sees themselves primarily as citizens of the federal state, they are unlikely to fight for the state executive at all. A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!
But, more importantly, even if you had a federal police force and military, its members would have to see themselves as European first. This is unlikely to happen until long after the EU constituent treaties recognise a single EU-wide sovereign entity that the federal authorities can identify with. En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
Article 50 1. Any Member State may decide to withdraw from the Union in accordance with its own constitutional requirements.
Leaving in disregard of the rules was just chosen as an example of an act that disregards the federal rules. It is such a final act, which makes it a good example. Any act that should land the local executive in federal prison would work as example of where the real sovereignty resides. A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!
Any act that should land the local executive in federal prison
Power of the purse (real power, with real enforcement) makes you a federation. If for no other reason then because of the concentration of power on the federal level required for enforcement.
- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
