Let's face it: our culture (all across the EU), is American, anyway. It's stupid to pretend otherwise.
There's extreme wealth inequalities between EU countries (we're talking about one order of magnitude in the extreme cases), language barriers are the main things holding back the demographic crisis that would come from mass economic immigration within the EU.
> Let's face it: our culture (all across the EU), is American, anyway. It's stupid to pretend otherwise.
EU is a big place (and so is the US). Perhaps you've mainly visited major urban centers of both and so don't see the rather unique cultures both hold.
But that was the whole point of EU's existence: to make it easy for people to move countries. Do you claim that removing extra point of friction will make things somehow worse?
Yes, did you not read my comment?
The peripheries of the EU (Portugal, Spain, Southern Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, etc) already see massive youth immigration and brain drain to the richer areas of the EU.
Make the majority of EU citizens fluent in English, and you can imagine how that would quickly massively increase this issue and destroy local economies and create massive political issues.
No, it isn't. At most you could say that a part of our culture is American, but even amongst each other, EU countries differ quite a bit in terms of culture.
Don't forget that American culture mostly comes from Europe. The influence goes both ways.
Good idea - wrong language. English would make EU less European. German would be a better choice, or French or <inset an actual EU language>. Not that I believe in the idea.
the EU tries very hard to conflate itself with "Europe", but it is not Europe
it is a political entity that happens to be based in Europe, and one that does not even represent a majority of the European population
it does not get to decide what is and what is not European
I would even go as far as to say that whichever superpower language they pick should also be used additionally for legal contracts and government work