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You are right but it will never happen. It only takes one country to break ranks and the game is back on again.
by Narkov 8y ago
You are right but it will never happen. It only takes one country to break ranks and the game is back on again.
- toyg 8y agoI wouldn't be so pessimistic. This was happening in XVIII and XIX century Europe too, which was much more divided politically. Thanks to the industrial revolution, businesses went from town-size to country-size. In reaction, nations coagulated around larger cores. Similarly, when businesses played national region versus national region, workers' right movements were forced to scale up to respond. In many ways, the emergence of the EU was forced by the rise of supranationally-sized industrial giants emerging from US and URSS. Now that it's clear that "supranational champions" really have no fundamental loyalty, there is a very high chance that supranational institutions will become more and more powerful. The challenge is to make those institutions answer to everyone rather than just to the elites.
- IAmEveryone 8y agoSeems like this very article is about this practice ending?