Lawrence Widow Shock at Decision

[Don Corleone]

To illustrate the point:

Would a Texan, residing in Florida, be expelled, if he commited a felony in Florida?

The EU is quite similar in this point.
EDIT: To be honest it´s not that simple. Foreign EU national need to have lived there 10 years in order to get the privilege.


And no, it´s not part of a constitution, is a so called regulation. This is a type of law that was enacted by the EU (council, commission, parliament). But these EU laws are just as binding as national laws.

It's not the same thing at all. Despite Strike & Khafir's thoughts on the matter, neither Texas nor Florida are sovereign states. Each is under the jurisdicition of a federal government which is also directly accountable to its citizens at the ballot box. Yes, I know, you have a European government in Brussels. But they're not directly elected, there's no Democratic process. In reality, they're an aristocracy.

Put another way, what can the average Euorpean voter do to directly influence policies enacted in Brussels? Scant little.

I was surprised to see your answer on illegal immigrants living in Germany. Citizenship is traced through the father only? If my mother was a German citizen, had me in a hospital in Nuremberg, but my father was Canadian, I wouldn't qualify for German citizenship? Interesting approach. What do you do in cases where the identity of the father is unknown?

All that being said, sorry IA. Your beef isn't with the EU, it's with your own government for volunteering to put these shackles on. If the rules say every EU member country must outlaw the practice of religion and your government was dumb enough to sign you up for the EU, I don't see that you have too many choices... atheism at the barrel of a gun it is for you and yours.

For the record, it was these sorts of questions that were the reason WHY the original 13 colonies were so wary of entering into union and why the original Articles of Confederation had no teeth. In order to get the requisite number of member states to sign on to the Constitution, Massachussets and Connecticut had to threaten Rhode Island with invasion if they didn't sign.