Originally Posted by will76

'funny' i think you missed the """""""""' funny """""""""""""""" perhaps interesting, debatable, or argumentative would have been better words.

Bottom line, you can't group 20+ countries together and try to compare them to one. If those 20+ countries have 1 govt, 1 army, 1 system of law, etc.. than yeah you can, but just because they share a common currency doesn't put the " union" on the same level as a country.