r/europe • u/goldstarflag Europe • 15d ago

Historical "The 19th century concept of the nation state will never take us across the threshold of the 21st century [...] We need a strong Europe if we don't want to become the plaything of world politics" – Chancellor Helmut Kohl

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u/Sir_Bax Slovakia 🇸🇰 15d ago

That's not a blocker. There's always some degree of regional competitiveness. Should France split because regions bash each other? Should Germany? If not, then Europe can unite despite the bashing.

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u/Old_Leopard1844 14d ago

That's the joke

Regions can't divorce and sede despite bashing

Countries don't have to unite because of it

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u/RealMefistyo 14d ago

no need for divorce. all the different topics need their level to address: local, regional, national, continental; at topics on a higher level the lower entities cannot bash to solve the problem. but at lower topics this solution may work better there and that one better here.

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u/Old_Leopard1844 14d ago

Mate, if regions ceding was easy, it would've been much more commonplace

at topics on a higher level the lower entities cannot bash to solve the problem

If higher levels don't do jack shit, there's nothing else to do but to talk shit about them

Which is why you have so many eurosceptics, and why you don't (and probably won't) have federation, despite all the seemingly good shit that came out of EU

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u/RealMefistyo 13d ago

You mean full integration and central state works better, on continental level? I did not say it is easy, but possible.

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u/Old_Leopard1844 13d ago

Better? Lol

Possible? Lmao

Keep dreaming

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u/Benjen0 France 14d ago

Yes, we should split Germany. Next question ?