[Bleudrgn2010]

Yeah, I see what you mean about how it couldn't be a superpower... And I understand that it can't be unified, but I did sort of look at the goals that the EU is striving towards, and it seems that it's striving to combine the economies of Europe (which combined would be, of course, massive) and allowing Europe to "feel" unified while at the same time keeping each country's cultural diversity and all of that, to simply eliminate the desire for war among each other and create prosperity by...merging/sharing economies.

I understand Europe, at this point, probably won't want to be a military power and start on conquests again, which the EU is trying solidify I believe, but I mean will the massive economy that it has the potential of reaching thus affect the world in a considerable way?

I was reading this text book, it said something along the lines of: If the EU's goals are completely reached and their economies merge, their market would easily be able to compete with that of America and the Japanese and all the other huge markets out there, and if that were to happen, the world could separate into regional trading blocs and halt global trade.