[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Is the map real? The borders are smooth lines--and aren't straight, and some of the regions have barely any land while others are full of land.

[stefan10]

The reality in europe today is that we have no borders anymore and so the former borders and countries have less and less influence and regions get more important.

For example for my home region in germany luxembourg france and belgium are much more important than east north or south germany in terms of trade infrastructure projects.... . They found regional organizations that do not fit anymore in the old concept of countries and state.

For north germany scandinavia is more important than bavaria and for bavaria austria more than NRW and so on and on.


especially the regions near a border see huge changes after the shengen agreement was established. The former countries will become more and more unimportant or in many cases they are unimportant today.


We have a common market in most cases a common currency common laws no borders. In the end it is the same with states in the US. European countries will become ( or even are) as states in the US.