Religion, Defense Still Stand in Way As European Nations Try to Unite

Religion, Defense Still Stand in Way As European Nations Try to Unite describes the many parallels between the struggles to from the EU and the US:

Six heavily disputed subjects, which mirror questions that faced the U.S. Constitutional Convention in 1787, will provide the EU Constitution's biggest tests:

• How much power should a central government have?
• How much should individual states and citizens contribute to their common defense?
• What is the right balance of power between small and big states in the union?
• Who should represent the union abroad and how?
• What's the proper separation of church and state?
• What happens if a government refuses to ratify the constitution?