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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
So you're happy to have your children taught English as their first language, to think of themselves as Europeans before Spanish, to have all the major laws, taxes, Health, defense, immigration, financial policies, etc set in Strasbourg?
Because that was the dream.
One currency = One set interest rate, borrowing, spending, etc control. And without one currency, language and one set of laws the EU dream of the politicians and bureaucrats was never going to happen.
Forget about it just being about trade and commerce politicians and bureaucrats had a much bigger dream.
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My kid does think of himself as Spanish even though he's part English, Welsh, Italian, Basque and Spanish.
However he is taught in Spanish, which was difficult enough to do, as in the Basque country they're taught in Basque, in Catalunya, Catalan, in Galicia, Galician and now in Valenica, Valencian.
I had to move from Alicante to stop my kid getting taught more than 1/2 of his subjects in a regional dialect that no one speaks.
If anything this countries gone more regional than European these past few years.
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laws, taxes, Health, are set at regional level, not state. If the EU tries to take any of those away from the regions they would find Catalunya and the Basque country leaving.