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The European Parliament has a seat in Strasbourg only because France insists on it. Hopefully, the enlargement will put an end to this insanity. Better still would be if English was adopted as the only administrative language, don't you think? The Brits switch to metric and the French start to communicate in English with foreigners. That's a fair trade I think [Linked Image]
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Switzerland does not intend to join the European Union anytime soon. There was a referendum recently, where the No side won.(The Swiss have this nice idea of referendums. Instead of telling people what to do, the politicans ask people what to do.) They joined the United Nations only one or two years ago.

Lichtenstein, Norway and Iceland are not members, but have put themselves in a rather akward position: They have chosen to follow what the other nations decide, but have themselves no vote. This way they don't have to pay a membership fee to the EU. A recent report showed that Norway was the most EU compliant country, despite not being an EU country. [Linked Image]

Andorra, San Marino and the other small countries are not themselves part of the EU, but are nevertheless de facto members by their dependence of other countries. (E.g. Andorra is formally under French and Spanish overlords) Greenland, which is part of Denmark, did in fact leave the EC in 1985, IIRC