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?