2011-10-15T14:38:16Z https://www.treffpunkteuropa.de/The-European-Empire-the-people-and-the-democracy,04513#comment10322 2011-10-15T14:38:16Z

<p>« The European Union now covers an area which no empire in history dreamed of dominating. Neither the Roman empire, a model to all others, nor that of Charlemagne, not even that of Napoleon or Hitler have attained the dimension of the 27 EU states. »</p> <p>It should be noted that the British Empire at it's height encompassed one quarter of the world's land mass and one quarter of it's population. In modern terms this would render it around three or four times the size of the current European Union which is somewhat smaller in scale and decidedly provincial in terms of diversity of peoples.</p>

2011-10-10T09:20:15Z https://www.treffpunkteuropa.de/The-European-Empire-the-people-and-the-democracy,04513#comment10307 2011-10-10T09:20:15Z

<p>« The European Union now covers an area which no empire in history dreamed of dominating. » As far as I know the British Empire was even more vast then the union is now.</p> <p>« The characteristic of this empire is that it's an empire without an emperor. » Exactly, and therefor it isn't an empire at all in my opinion. An empire is per definitionem an extensive territory or a number of territories ruled by a single supreme authority. That's not the case. So, speaking of the EU as an empire makes no sense at all.</p>