Exactly. € and Schengen erase currency and national boundaries. They rock! Whenever I travel to a country within the EU that is not in the €-zone I cringe. Wh

Exactly. € and Schengen erase currency and national boundaries. They rock! Whenever I travel to a country within the EU that is not in the €-zone I cringe. While cultures and mentalities _do_ indeed vary quite a lot let that be seen as a _good_ and healthy thing. I consider myself European first, British Islander second. Have to figure out what other boundaries can be erased while at the same time respecting difference. More integration and yet more federation at the same time. The EU could pour money into pre-third level foreign language learning and into machine translation projects? That'd be cool.