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Posted by: Garshne
That doesn't seem like they're allowed to, though.
And we don't call them nations, either.
The difference between the EU and the United States is that the US shares a common heritage as a former colony, while the EU has many different cultures without a true shared 'ancestor culture', as it were. Even if there was, it's far too long ago to culturally link all these countries. As for being far to long ago, not long enough for the languages to change completely, I hear that those who know latin can understand a lot of 'french, english, spanish etc.' and also not long enough for those nations to try and style themselves off of what rome was.
By popular vote we can, quebec in Canada was trying to recede from Canada recently if I remember correctly. Also most of Europe has a common ancestor of Rome.
[Edited on 12.19.2012 12:10 PM PST]