immensely delighted with @cryptovexillologist 's observation that "the EU was once proposed to permit member nations whose territory was once part of the Roman Empire, but this was rejected when someone pointed out that this would exclude Ireland and include Kuwait."
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@lorxus @cryptovexillologist I'd be interested to know what the hell their definition of the roman empire would be. Does the holy roman empire count? Does the ottoman empire count? What about all the bits that were undeniably part of the roman empire but not in europe? Having Egypt and Tunisia in the *European* Union would probably be a little strange.
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@Felthry @lorxus @cryptovexillologist No, no, yes, explicitly that was the stated problem, in that order