Quote Originally Posted by Furunculus View Post
regionalism is generally meant to apply to nation-states, with greater subsidiarity from within that unit, not to con/federations where there is no identity at all, and the attempt becomes one of manufacturing a new 'loose' euro identity.
The 'loose' Euro identity already exists, at least in the younger population and similar for older population as well, but they simply have stronger identities competing for air-time.

Quote Originally Posted by Wikipedia
Proponents of regionalism say that strengthening a region's governing bodies and political powers within a larger country would create efficiencies of scale to the region, promote decentralization, develop a more rational allocation of the region's resources for benefit of the local populations, increase the efficient implementation of local plans, raise competitiveness levels among the regions and ultimately the whole country, and save taxpayers money.
Admittedly, sounds like something you would support Furunculus, in many ways.

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