La pace duratura in Europa richiede la creazione di uno stato europeo

It won’t happen. You can poll any EU country and you’d be lucky to get 1 that’s over 50% in favor of ceasing to be an independent state. National sovereignty is a big thing to people.

I mean can you just imagine the giga-fascism some of our farmers would joyfully elect because their workforce isn’t speaking the local tongue. 

Strong thumbs up from the grave of Napoleon.

Hitler thought so too

Just Balkans are too diverse to unite as one country, and you want to try that for the entirety of Europe?

That’s frankly a pure fantasy. However even without a super-state there is a lot that can be done that would really improve EU’s situation:

– continue common market integration – it’s not bad for goods, but not great for services and nonexistent for capital markets. That’s why in US tech startup can get way more financing than in EU and why US-based VC funds buy up any promising EU startup . Also the smoother commerce within EU, the less dependent we are on foreign trade

– push for more harmonization of law – another big barrier for EU economy is dealing with 27 different sets of rules. So almost any startup initially only targets their own home country instead of immediately accessing whole 450 million people strong market

– end of veto – yes, this might be a step too far for some, but you can’t have a working system with 27 countries and veto. Poland was once destroyed partly due to its completely dysfunctional political system due to ‘liberum veto’ – ability of any delegate to prevent passing of a law

– energy transition – unfortunately this has been deeply politicized, but even somebody who does not give a shit about environment should understand that Europe’s dependency on imported fossil fuels is both a security threat and huge drain on economy. Fuels are the single biggest item on the EU’s import balance. Imagine all this money staying in Europe.

– dealing somehow with social media – another controversial take, but the current situation is that Europe is completely infiltrated by US-owned social networks, which in turn are overrun by bots from every damn corner of the world. How can we have functional, independent democracy when most of EU citizens are spoon fed daily with misinformation manufactured or chosen by foreign countries. I fear that if that’s not addressed, foreign actors will manage to disintegrate EU within a decade.

N to the O… NO

Now that is an idea I would personally vote for. I feel more like an “European” than anything else.

Oh bet they’d love that, makes spying on everyone easier

That won’t bring peace, but separatist movements.