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I feel it would be apples and oranges to compare (sub-)continent spanning multi-ethnic countries like the USA or China with individual EU countries. The point of the EU is to form one economical union. Sure there's still deficits in unification on other fronts, but economically the EU is pretty much one uniform bloc of comparable size.

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There are so many other trading blocs out there, why not compare them? Eu itself has some of the largest economies of the world. It does seem almost unfair.

China's large size and huge population not necessarily an automatic recipe for success. As a matter of fact, other than USA, almost of all large countries with huge population are generally economic and quality of life failures.

On the top of my minds I can think of, Russia, India, Brazil, Pakistan, Mexico all doing pretty shitty job, relatively speaking.

name one trading block unified to the extent EU is unified. We have pan EU government, pan EU law, freedom of migration and many more.

EU, is a great trading lock, the most prosperous successful trading bloc. No doubt about it. But it's a trading bloc, not a country.

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