"The EU’s role in the world is gradually growing, but it is not nearly as strong as its population and economic power would suggest,” the Czech minister said.
“I know that it is not at all popular. I think that a European Federation or a United States of Europe would only put Europe in a position where we would be a truly equal partner in the game between China, America, or Russia and India,” he added.
What does Europe want that they can’t get just by being a friend of the US? Together they have the power, and the US is not perfect.
However there is a great cost the US pays to be a global power. By being in NATO and friends with the US Europe gets most of what a modern liberal (classical liberal which has nothing to do with the political term liberal) countey wants from being a power and they don’t deal with the resentment that the powerful face.
Note being in Europe I don’t have any direct role. However I urge those of you who are to think carefully . Things are not perfect now, but they won’t be perfect after Europe asserts itself more either. You have to take the good with the bad, is the good of the change worth it,
I don’t know why you mention USA, and also the NATO for that matter, when the issue is about the federation of EU? It has nothing to do with USA relations.
Also, FYI, the USA wants and urge EU to be stronger.
And, I don’t see the EU leaving NATO in the foreseeable future. There has only been an increase in NATO membership, so no worries mate.