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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Anything is possible - people who think otherwise either lack imagination or object in principle.
In most cases I suspect it's the latter.
Why do people object in principal? In most cases come acrooss it seems to be some sense of patriotism:
"I'm British and I don't want some buch of foreigners telling me what to do"
Still it keeps the Yanks happy
UK GDP: $1.867 trillion
US GDP: $13.049 trillion
Europe GDP: $12.329 trillion
Last thing the US wants is faith in the EU restored - they don't want a European superpower.
And given Iraq, it looks a lot smarter to be aligned with Europe (where we're a big player) than the US (where we're a hanger on)
Just as a matter of interest this page show how Europe would have fared in the last Olympics if we'd competed as an entity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_at_the_2004_Summer_Olympics
Over twice the number of gold medals that the US won and nearly three times the number of silver and bronze