Quote Originally Posted by Philipvs Vallindervs Calicvla View Post
Outside the intelligencia there's no support for your ideas. What you are asking is for people to change their identities, people don't do that willingly. Just look at the Welsh, the Scots, or even the Cornish with relation to "Great Britain".
Actually, my plan would give more credit to those regional identities and give those regions greater influence over themselves and in their greater autonomy. Europe is simply a knitting net which holds the collective will of the 'West/Europe' in terms of foreign policy in regards to powers who are not part of Europe. Whilst I do believe in that we should be "united", I don't think we should sign up for a very centralised government, system or federation.

Though ideologically speaking, it isn't 'simply that', it is only a stepping stone to further changes, this is model replicated in other large geographical areas, such as North America, South America, Africa, Asia, etc. Then ultimately once they harmonised to a sufficient degree. These large areas end up merging into a Global Federation based on this model. Once this is in place, the Federation government is weakened furthermore (due to lack of there being anything 'Foreign', unless Aliens come randomly.)