Just wondering as an American watching the EU pool resources and mostly work for the same common goals over my lifetime.
To clarify, I’m not saying that this would be a part of the United States of America, but a separate world power.
History comes in cycles. We’re entering an era of strong nationalism so I can’t believe that would happen any time soon. But once the world runs out of oil, the climate is decimated, and population comes crashing down because of restrictive immigration laws, there will be a sharp curve to the left and pro-EU that could lead to more interest in federation.
Or not, and the EU will continue to crumble during the water wars.
soon. But once the world runs out of oil, the climate is decimated, and population comes crashing down because of restrictive immigration laws, there will be a sharp curve to the left and pro-EU that could lead to more interest in federation.
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This. Also, throw in the mix a backlash against nationalists abusing the cultural power void that might appear if both the US and the UK are collapsing - including the media industries -, the soft power of English declines, and instead of mass adoption of Mandarin in the stead of English we might try again Esperanto (which might not be the perfect universal language, but it could be perfect for Europeans).
Probably more integration than we have now, but not full integration like the US. I think something one might call a confederation is likely. Unified military, more integrated economies (stuff like having a common framework for company registrations, not tax but taxation systems), shared system for identification/passports, maybe an EU-tax (similar to how most countries have something like municipality/city tax, regional tax and state tax, some of that could be moved to an EU-wide pool of money).
But I don’t think we’ll see taxation and budgets left over completely to the EU, education, healthcare etc. Just unify the boring stuff and make integration better.
I hope within a hundred years, the entire globe can unite and we can all just be Earthicans.
Edit: What hateful POS is against worldwide unification?
OPA will not stand for continued interference from the inners!
Beltalowda!
What hateful POS is against worldwide unification?
Vibrant ecologies have diversity. Fully unified government isnt diverse, and would be bad for at least some people. I hope all of our governments suck less, but still have each-other to compete with.
Hey, I am.
We are now nemesis… Nemeses… Nemesiss?
As a Canadian, could it be rebranded to Western Democratic Union (or something), so we can join? Also it might help UK undo its mistake if it didn’t have to admit its mistake.
