Yes, it would be a way of making the fight more manageable for them.
But:
- it would not eliminate internal competition, and might exacerbate it. See Texas vs. California in the USA, for example.
- What other bloc could emerge in the next 30 years to constitute the equivalent of a federal EU? Mercosur? Extremely doubtful. Who else?
The EU is a process that started over 70 years ago, and is still far from completion.
- If only the EU manages to form a new federal bloc, it could exacerbate its well-known negative tendencies, described in this article, and prevent it from responding effectively to the exacerbated fiscal and demographic competition between countries.
All this at the same time as we are likely to see an explosion of different types of sovereignty, with special economic zones, free cities, network states, etc.
Yes, it would be a way of making the fight more manageable for them.
But:
- it would not eliminate internal competition, and might exacerbate it. See Texas vs. California in the USA, for example.
- What other bloc could emerge in the next 30 years to constitute the equivalent of a federal EU? Mercosur? Extremely doubtful. Who else?
The EU is a process that started over 70 years ago, and is still far from completion.
- If only the EU manages to form a new federal bloc, it could exacerbate its well-known negative tendencies, described in this article, and prevent it from responding effectively to the exacerbated fiscal and demographic competition between countries.
All this at the same time as we are likely to see an explosion of different types of sovereignty, with special economic zones, free cities, network states, etc.