...American public. major reason for this is that the EU is difficult to define in terms of a political entity. On the one hand, it is not a nation-state since it lacks sovereignty over a specific territory. On the other hand, it is more than a mere international organization--like the United Nations--because it possesses authoritative control over certain aspects of its member states, such as the currency for twelve of its twenty-five member nations. After trying to describe the EU to an audience, former European Commission President Jacques Delors reportedly gave up in frustration and called it a "UPO"--an "Unidentified Political Object." The EU is like no other entity that has ever existed and this situation makes it complicated to explain. Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright...

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