Nearly puked when I say this delusional article....Us at the Heart of Europe?WTF!?!

[sondagefaux]

So, according to your argument, we could join the USA, Canada or Australia as well as to the EU. Wonder how that is going to work....

It's called the United Nations. It seems to work reasonably well in some areas, less well in others.

[Cato]

The only ideological idea I'm taking from Greece is Democracy.

By saying that you are only parading your ignorance. As I said, you might be wise to pay heed to the wisdom of Socrates and seek to at least know what you do not know before engaging in such assertions.

[Toman13]

It's called the United Nations. It seems to work reasonably well in some areas, less well in others.

Unlike the EU, it does not have political unity on it's agenda

[Toman13]

Which clearly includes use of the English language. Ireland IS a European country, culturally, economically, politically, socially.

Your idea seems to be that Ireland has developed its modern culture in splendid isolation. Nothing could be further from the truth.

So far, rubbish job on turning me into a pro-EUer

[Al.]

some people really need to learn history. We had 753 years of a colonial history involving, among other things, plantations, penal laws and famine. We now have an EU of 27 democracies negotiated by treaty

Yes, you need to learn history. This is the same way Bismarck built his German Empire. Now Ireland, once a nation, be a province once again. If you think that the government in Brussels is democratic, then you must be a communist, because that government is a copy of the Soviet government with the only difference being the (in name only) multi-party system inhabiting its equivalent of the Supreme Soviet.

So funny how those that bloviate about "democracies" seemingly have no knowledge of what a true democracy is...or perhaps how sad. Basic rights such as habeas corpus are illegal in the EU. Basic democratic tools such as accountability of politicians to the people (appointed politicians answer to nobody), nobody being above the law (immunity from prosecution puts politicians above the law), no separation of powers (an executive that both writes and passes laws?—that's ruling by decree—and a legislature that can't write laws?) are utterly absent in the EU. The sacred "veto" has been shown to have zero power.

Care to try again? because I really dislike equivocators, with all due respect.

[sondagefaux]

So far, rubbish job on turning me into a pro-EUer

I'm not trying to turn you into anything, although you might want to spend some time turning yourself into a less ignorant person.

Europe and the EU are not synonymous.

[sondagefaux]

Unlike the EU, it does not have political unity on it's agenda

It does, to a certain extent.