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"en.20130117.31.4-202-000"2
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"Mr President, if supranationalism was going to work in any part of the world, Latin America would be the chief candidate. The countries concerned have a congruent language – in fact, they almost all have the same language. Brazilians can understand Spanish although, as we both know, sadly and unfairly, the reverse is not true. And there is a religious, a cultural, a historical continuity; the schemes for merger have been there since the days of Bolivar and San Martín. To this day there is a community that you can see even by watching the abominable interchangeable soap operas of that part of the world.
And yet, stubbornly, politely, the countries have retained their national democratic independence, despite the best efforts of the European Union to pressure them with trade and aid deals into forming a supranational union on the EU model. I had not appreciated until I got to this place the extent to which organisations like Mercosur are not indigenous bodies that the EU just happens to support, but are creatures of either the European Union or its proxy organisations such as the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.
If supranational federation does not even work in South America, what hope of it working where there is a far wider cultural and linguistic diversity in this part of the world?"@en1
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