[wwhitman]

Feel free to petition your government to close them. It is your country is it not? Unfortunately even downsizing is met with local resistance due to job losses. There is no real reason for the EU to be toothless windbags. It wouldn't be easy but it could be done. I would love to see the US pull back and spend more time on Mexico etc. but I am in a very small minority and no government ever wants to reduce its own power.

[popee]

Who is going around the world exporting wars in name of whatever? I can't make petition for that, only you can do it. But I even can't make petition for that in EU because EU politicians are slaves, they just follow US politics even if it will be bad for EU. Most people are not happy about that. On the other hand it looks like you thing that EU wouldn't exist without EU? If you saying that -> just LOL