The EU's commitment to basic human principles means that it has a communal vocation that is broader and more universal than that of a multinational federation.
Throughout most of his life, he was the chief opponent of the Polish military and political leader Józef Piłsudski and of the latter's vision of Poland as a multinational federation.
If Piłsudski's vision of Poland was based on the historical multiethnic state that had existed under the Jagiellonian dynasty, which he hoped to recreate with a multinational federation (Międzymorze federation), Dmowski's vision was the earlier Polish kingdom ruled by the Piast dynasty, ethnically and religiously homogeneous.
Such instability should come as no surprise given the tensions typically giving rise to federal political orders in the first place, such as tensions between majority and minority national communities in multinational federations.
As far as multinational federations go, Canada is sort of a mess.
Almost everywhere, attempts to achieve federation and other forms of multinational communication have foundered on the rocks of nationalism.
This was a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, four-arm, unbalanced-design, parallel-group, multicenter, multinational study conducted in 133 centers in 16 countries (Australia, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Germany, Croatia, Mexico, Morocco, the Philippines, Romania, Russian Federation, South Africa, Spain, Ukraine, U.S., and Venezuela).
"To stop the threat of services being tendered out and being run by Virgin [the multinational conglomerate] and Boots [a UK pharmacy chain], local GPs have got together to form a federation.
This 12-week, multinational, randomized, parallel-group, placebo-controlled study was conducted at 61 centers in 12 countries (Belgium, India, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Tunisia, Ukraine, and United States) between 2008 and 2009.
Eventually, the federation relented.
