Exactly this - thanks for sharing! The real problems we face today are not of national, but global scale. There is no need to stick to national states in bound

Exactly this - thanks for sharing! The real problems we face today are not of national, but global scale. There is no need to stick to national states in boundaries drawn in the horse and cart era. Differences in local culture etc. can be accommodated in a federal state (like in the US or Germany). Was interesting to see that this was a generally agreed policy throughout Europe until the treaty of Maastricht in the 90s, when monetary and economic unity were pushed, but political unity was dropped. Apparently, this was due to a) Neoliberalism, which supports power for markets not states and b) good old British eurosceptics. Finally, this is obviously not the position of the European Commission, but the view of one commissioner who wants to start a local debate at Passau university.