i am not humoring anybody. but your reply smells like you are trying to joke about me.
anyway... i will declare my opinion for the posters who takes into account (if there is anyone).
i believe the EU (i forget the former name) is a project and founded by the developed european countries. the founders were already rich and developed, but, indivisually, small w.r.t US and USSR. So, their aim was to get the synergic effect of grouping in the beginning. with the help of succesfull portugal and spain experiments, and, with the collapse of USSR, they wanted to go after not only for economical benefits but the power also to compete with the US in controlling the different parts of the world. in this second stage they forgive some of their prosperity for the newcomers to control europe as a beginning. but there were some weak points in this project, like euro, nationalism of each country etc. etc..... anyway, it is a long story and may be discussed in another topic.
As a conclusion, the main idea: EU was, allready, a necessity for europeans against US and it would be absurd if US would join the union.
P.S. please dont answer lebrok, i had enough dissappointment about you.