[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.

[AdAstraPerArdua]

'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.'

You try getting into the UK from any other part of europe without your passport and you'll find a friendly english bobby pointing a H&K MP5 at you! It's true that people can wander from euro country to euro country, but at least the brits have kept control of their borders. We should do the same!

[gotribe]

Hey, leave those state borders just the way they are. I like seeing the Welcome signs when I cruise along the interstates. And I like seeing the 65 mph switch to 70 mph in some of those states.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Realistically, that could help Germany and the other EU states to compete with both the United States and what could become other superpowers (China and India most prominently, though India is rather lagging whether the Indian nationalists on this forum will acknowledge that or not). However, it would be completely understandable for Europeans to try to preserve their national and regional cultures. The American states do have some individual cultures of their own, but to a MUCH lesser extent than Europe (obviously).

[BnBlFlag]

I find it incredible that you would dissolve your own country and subordinate the various parts into "Spatial Regions".
Millions of Americans would die before submitting to such an atrocity. Maybe the term "Euro Weenie" is appropriate after all.