@@Tim_TM42 he said other

What about the island of Cyprus ? There are some arguments speculating the official division of the island...Others support a confederation between the two sides. @General Knowledge what is your opinion on that ?

Why you believe it’s in the next 5 years it will change.

@@user-xp8nq5mf9y He doesn't.

The European Union = GET WOKE GO BROKE

Lmfao. I wonder what your future country will be.

@@kairos116 It will be called 'Zone four' of the United states of Europe

My grandfather lived in 7 countries by only moving between 2 Croatian cities...

Lwow/Lemberg?

Oh my god😂

very funny

Wait. You did?

Aldi North Aldi South Aldi West Aldi East

Both world wars effectively destroyed what was left of old European governing body but for a few . Follow example of Israeli,s building a new trans European state former states now seated at house of commons to vote as Swiss Canton does .

That is why they unified. Modern weddings. Redecomposed families.

Classic

Oof

I mean there are only like 7 or 8 themes of european history. Splitting Poland being one.

We'll call the other half "Lithuania"

@@gaevlebocken What are the other themes? I'm curious!

We could erase Poland again ;-) (happened at least from 1795 till 1918)

Well.... a it wasn't Holy, it wasn't Roman, and it wasn't really an empire. Now on the subject of history, how 'bout the ol' Treaty Of Westphalia....

@@tobymaltby6036 but it was germanic, so it doesnt count like european union

@@Darium147 Point about Westphalia is that it shows how arbitrary and superficial most modern states are (UK being good example). Whereas pan-continental hegemonic power structures are as old as civilization, and as equally unavoidable. So you might as well have a seat at the table...

@@tobymaltby6036 I like pan continental idea with former ethnic bodies/states seated at a sort of house of commons but with Swiss Canton,s like powers.

@@lawrencefox563 I could live with that. For instance, in Britain, we would go back to the old cantons we had prior to about 950AD, such as Mercia, Wessex, etc. This would mean areas such as Wales and Scotland would not be hugely outnumbered. It would, of course, mean the end of the United Kingdom. Which I think is now not unlikely anyway....

Wow this is a very different mindset than in Spain. I think Spain should try some federalism themselves.

Yeah, Bavaria wouldnt leave germany behind, we just want to rant about our differences. (Etwas granteln muss sein)

True. The year before unification it was actually discussed, because the Bavarian government was afraid of the costs coming up back then. But they figured leaving Germany would be really stupid from an economic point of view.

@@ElyOmar I think you should invest time into analysing the currents of separatism. Federalism in a equally distributed wealth scenario is a good thing and probably will allow for local solutions to local problems all the while still encouraging synergy effects by galvanizing resources in national policies. Federalism in a mal distributed wealth scenario however encourage local ambitions to go separate furthermore. There are also ethnic issues. Bavarians are different in many aspects but they aren't speaking a complete other language (at least they understand High German, even if other way around is not so), therefore don't have as much of an issue that their kids are thought in another dialect than their local one. Catalonia or Basque however are more distinct as far as I know. And the wealth isn't distributed equal here either. If East Germany was richer than the West I definitely believe they would have stayed independent, but this wasn't the case of course and to this day the rest of Germany is paying for their development.

@@minzblatt At Catalans speak Castillian. They all do. Basque people I understand, because it is not a "spanish" language. But Catalans just like Galicians Andalusians etc. are all Spanish without exception. Cataluña as a country is nothing more than pipe dream.

Pretty much all of Portuguese history in a nutshell

For all bad things absolute monarchies and a dictatorship did, at least we learned to stay together.

And they may even just gain Galiza out of nowhere

@@riograndedosulball248 That wouldn't make any sense. Battle of São Mamede, anyone? Probably not, people don't usually know anything us and that's very clear.

Portugal will break up into Madeira, the Azores, the Algarve, Porto and then the rest. 😌

Maybe nevertheless because 'all good things are three'

100% spot on +1. May the peace project continue!

I don't think this time anything significant as to bringing the world in a war to europe could happen. Center of World politics are not in Europe anymore.

@@gazibizi9504 Aaaaaahhhh!! You take that back!!😡😡😡

@@gazibizi9504 To some extent yes, but if EU fails and divides itself, China and Russia will be emboldened to increase influence in the Middle East and Africa, which will in turn create additional tensions in these places, leading to a global conflict.

pour le coup c'est plus tot une sorte de conséquence plus qu'une possibilité. ces territoires était français avant l'EU et l'ont intégré au même titre que la corse par exemple donc je suis pas sur que ta théorie soit appliquable

@@antoinedenis9922 en y réfléchissant l'Espagne, le Royaume-Uni et le Danemark ont également des bouts de leur territoire qui ne se situent pas sur le continent européen. Après c'est clairement une conséquence de l'histoire et pas une volonté d'inclusion c'est certain.

les états-unis rejoignent l’union européenne en cinq ans MDR😂

only countries located on the European continent and only with a white population can join the European Union, that's what makes sense

Where can I find a link to it?

Is it Victoria III?

It was a joke lol

HOI 5

Just a imaginaire a HRE but bigger and more border gorey

That's not Europe, that's Africa.

@ that’s Europe too

What's up with that I get that the Scottish are a different people but it's a union not an empire plus do they really wanna fall that far from grace! Britain was once the most powerful nation on earth now it's just sad!😢

@Faigornx He's not talking about Europe, he's talking about european countries and separatism

@Faigornx No problem

You should leave the eu. Eu is basically mitteleuropa and stahlpakt all over again.

@@Caspff and end up like the UK? No, thanks.

@@Moribax85 Norway and swiz aren't in EU either. If you want an independent country, then being a part of EU is the opposite way.

@@Caspff You sure you know about politics? Norway and Switzerland are in the Schengen Area. What does it mean? It means that they're compelled to follow all EU regulations, but don't have any say in those regulations because they're not EU members. I think you should study the argument you want to discuss, before discussing it.

@@Moribax85 there is nothing to talk about, how an leftist anti-cultural organization, dominated by germans which wants to federalize europe is a good thing?

A lots of old conservatives wants the Balkans, Caucasus and all the est europe to join even if they are not democracy, because they are all satellites under Russia that supports the pro Putin local dictatorial party, and they want to humiliate him.

Only one European state does ? Assange...Catalan deputees locked up for having organised elections....30 eyes shot by French police, the black blocks and other police-provocations... , ... democracy in Europe or USA ? Partly in Switzerland.... at least...

@@cauwenberghsroeland8607 The stare structure of both USA and european nations is democratic because it doesn't allow concentration of powers in a single small group of persons. The state violence can happen for flaw in the legislation, for unchecked violent people with authority, or because citizens simply don't mind about that. But Is a very different situation from systematic state violence used by a dictator that can do everything without limits.

Lukashenko is FAR MORE popular than any western liberal democratic leader. Belarus is basically MORE DEMOCRATIC than ALL western countries.

@@lucasgrey9794 Can't tell if bad troll or literally braindead

Look who it is.

Please make this subject into a video, that is an amazing idea.

Do it!

@@SAVAGE-oe3fg you know if it ain’t Dutch it ain’t much

Oh boy you are going to be harassed with scenario ideas, and I will take part in it. What if Richard the Lionheart made it back to england? What If Austria prevented the Prussian Unification of Germany?

@@aliceberethart so you Think that other countries arent transparent, trustworthy or responsible

I think its already happened...An anthem, embassies, centralised court and Parliament, no true sovereignty a unified currency and an army on the way...As A Brit, I am so glad to get out just in time and most Brits consider the Swedes as long time friends, so I wish you all the luck in the world

We'll have our own thing, with non-fucked democracy and proper healthcare

European countries in generel have the best health care in the world, its not about being better than other members we are all in the same boat. Its about comepting economically, helping each other.. at least we should work on ourselves to achieve this

Official languages "um i think we have like 100 but idk"

HRE: Im four parallel universes ahead of you!

Foolish person

@@alekstanton4715 I would consider my home and garden a state. So, I don't have to pay heavy EU taxes for maintaining bla bla bla people!

@@alekstanton4715 Hahaha! Mine was a joke! If I were to declare independence the first thing the state would do is to arrest me for disturbing the peace and take everything away! I'm sure the state would have other law suits to press charges too! If I can find it there's an old British film (comedy) on this subject. In the film it is called Burgundy in the middle of London. I'll check 😉

@@alekstanton4715 The film is called "Passport to Pimlico 1949". I couldn't find the the full film, but I'm sure you can. Its worth watching and very funny too... kzfaq.info/sun/PLxkDxrDWBUl7zq_-k58P7yPZ2lGGkEA5W

Oh man.

Another Sabaton song?

That really means nothing

European wars won't happen again

@@husted5488 Balkan is typing...

Keep me updated on the news

@@diolaneiuma215 spoiler : never

You’re right. And Algeria was part of it (European Economic Community by that time)

What's next, taking part in Eurovision? (Checks Wikipedia, finds out Morocco already took part in Eurovision) Hum ok

@@claram5482 well yea Morocco is the only African Country which is a part of Eurovision , Morocco has relations with The EU more than any other Arab or African Country Since the war of Sands

Morocco does share a lot of history with Europe

@@omaralkayal7598 The most of Moroccan history is related to western Europe more than any other Islamic Nations , The Moroccan rulle Of Iberia , The Battles Against Castille , Battle of Three Kings , Piracy in Alboran sea and the Atlantic , attack to Iceland and Ireland , Friendship with Netherlands ( The first Friendship between non-Christian country and a Christian country ) , Hispanic-Moroccan War , War of rif , European colonialism , World War 2 And The moroccans who fought in the side of franco

Shite land

Shit Island

@@miguelds2228 their name speaks for itself

Glad someone else pointed that out haha

@@ignaspetrauskas8763 So says a bunch of people who've never lived there. The weather, I'll admit, isn't great... - But the summer can be nice because you can swim in the sea off the west coast (not exactly warm, but the gulf stream means it's warmer than the North Sea).

for a quick example the brittany region of france on said map is wrong as of today the ex britanny city Nantes do not complitely identify as part of brittany even tho it was for centuries it currently isn't and asn't be for a while just on that point it's wrong

1 part about that map, Athlone being the new capital of Ireland is a ridiculous prospect.

Soon you’ll be Spanish...

Why don't you join your angry neighbor? Just kidding... Unless..? 👀👀

@@micxixd823 Well Gibraltar already is quite culturally Spanish, were not “pure English” rather our own unique identity/language mix of English/Spanish call it Spanglish if you want lol, and thousands of Spanish workers cross the border to work here every day and we get along with majority of them well so Gibraltarians should decide for themselves if they want to remain under Britain or join Spain, self determination should always be our right, we’ve voted 95% to remain British in two past referendums. We’re proud of our British ties and History

@@micxixd823 Dumb

it will became like monaco.

Liechtenstein is smart, they don't pay taxes to Switzerland but use Swiss infrastructure, for example if there's a fire in Liechtenstein, the Swiss fire brigade come and deal with it, because Liechtenstein doesn't have a fire brigade.

@@simonh6371 they may not directly pay taxes but they pay us (Switzerland) for those services.

@@simonh6371 I'm being very pedantic but while there's no professional fire brigade in Liechtenstein, each municipality is required by law to have its own volunteer fire brigade, which the municipality funds. There's a larger brigade in Vaduz which is state-funded. So, Liechtensteiners do put out their own fires. Whether that was true when the Swiss army set the country alight I genuinely don't know. :P

Liechtenstein also has close ties to Austria. E.g. the only railway line in the country is owned (!) by the Austrian Federal Railways. Also Liechtenstein is not only a member of the EFTA (like Switzerland) but also the EEA.

Liechtenstein is also protected by the swiss army

Why terrifying?

@Kyro Byis Think about it: Russia plus a full continent; all that territory under one government. Doesn’t that seem slightly unnerving to you? Especially the way some of these countries are headed & how easily corrupted that government might be.

@Kyro Byis Even without Russia it’s unsettling. Even America’s not that vast.

@@matthewheald8964 Interesting point. Although I doubt Russia would even be included. Last I checked, there were also plenty of ways to counter corruption. But besides corruption, what exactly would be so bad about a single European government?

@Kyro Byis First of all, when he talks about Europe becoming a country, I think of all of Europe instead of just EU territory, so given the fact that he covers several other outlandish & impossible country unions in his other videos I decided to at least address that possibility. In case it wasn’t clear (& I apologize if I did not make it so), the possibility for corruption was something I foresee in any possible union of the proposed nature. Second, there are measures against corruption, but they are not infallible (as an American, the current level of corruption in my country is appalling, despite all the checks & balances our founders put in place), & if the European government went rogue, I think it would be a huge threat to the world. I have no idea how we all stay alive with Russia & China in existence, but Europe, Russia, & China sounds like 1984. Aside from all that, the whole plan involves dozens of European countries sacrificing their national sovereignty, which does not sound like the best choice for them. The EU is one thing, but the full merging of those countries is another, especially with all the countries that don’t really like each other like Netherlands & Belgium, & Serbia & Kosovo. That among other factors would make a complete union difficult if not impossible & certainly (I believe) unbeneficial for all involved.

Yeah, but nobody here wants a united benelux tho

@@Mango_Eter I do

@@alexgallion8112 living with Frisians is bad enough imo, definitely don't wanna live in a country where people speak French.

@@Mango_Eter gotta love that dutch superiority complex, merde

@@Sunrah ga slakken eten franskiljon

Yet they must abide by all EU legislation, except a few opt-out matters without having politcal influence (not part of the Council and not elective the EU Parliament). Honestly, it doesn't seem a very good deal for Norway.

@@giulioascari214 it does because of there fishing industry and petrol exploration . Once that runs out, they’ll want to join . I’ll give it 15 years

@@giulioascari214 Yes. Currently Norway in all practical sense is like a member without a voice.

@@julianamonteiro9648 I think this is right. Norway remains outside of the EU due to certain economic reasons. Once the incentives for those exceptions fade, Norway will seek to become a full member. Sweden and Finland just joined Nato, I see Norway and Iceland joining by 2040. Switzerland likely never will, though. lol

@@falsevacuum4667 I don't really get the reasoning behind anything Switzerland does so 💀

it's called a prosthetic. you know, for when people misplace their leg, they need a new one.

@@tylermech66 yeah... Sorry I just forgot the word. I'll edit it, thanks ^^

huh?

@@mingg4724... That woman has a prosthetic leg on the drawing

@@davidmagyar6093 oh ok

or Transnistria

Well, duh. It's a city. It can't walk...

It belongs to Germany

@@DerMke As a German, I have to disagree. It once was German, but things change and keep changing. The majority of the population there is Russian. On top of that, I bet Germany or our government woudn't even like to accept it even if Putin himself would offer it. It would be an enclave and as auch higly expensive. And just like with former Eastern Germany, there might be a huge economical difference which you would need to compensate somehow. I also think such an action would bring further tensions to our relation with Poland. The US might also wanna put all their NATO missiles there which means that the US would "annoy" Germany and then Germany might annoy the US by not agreeing and so on. I guess Germany would rather take some small remote and uninhabited island in the Pacific instead of Kaliningrad. (Even thouh that would be an enclave with a even larger distance - but at least most other countries woudn't care and we would have some tropical place for vacation.)

I red that the population of really Kaliningrad doesn't like Putin and his isolationist policies, so that enclave is considered the weak point of Russia.

So Federal Europe with more states it is

Here in Venice it's everybody's dream, and you can see it almost everywhere if you come to visit, even more than the Italian flag. We even have our own language with its own literary tradition.

It's already the official flag of the city of venice

@@dannytaylor03za yeah but this indipendent "Veneto" thing was just a meme and the region will remain in Italy for the near future

I'd prefer to see the Flag of the Republic of Genoa again.

*Holy Roman Empire memes intensify*

underrated comment

Holy European Empire!

We need an emperor. Let's summon the Great Electors! The governors of the European Central Bank and Bundesbank, the President of France and the German Bundeskanzler(in), the grand duke (or duchess) of Luxembourg, the CEO of IKEA and the president of UEFA ;)

@@stefanodadamo6809 I agree

No,union of socialistics european republics

Federer shares your attitude, but is not comic as you.

you are the smart ones..Fuck this union

@@dedeferreira98 fuck EU

Islamic attack on Switzerland Switzerland: hey but it's illegal

tu a craqué par contre les breton et corse sont fier de leur culture et j'en sait quelque chose mais demanderont jamais l'indépendance complête sa serait un désastre économique et sa c'est que les plus gros "indépendantiste" de france avec les basque. il y a une différence entre être fier de sa culture régionale comme les breton ou les corse et être indépendant comme la catalogne ou encore plus gros l'écosse

@@antoinedenis9922 You seem a tad confused and incapable of adopting a consistent stance here. Catalonia is thought of today as a region of Spain, not a distinct nation. It can be considered historically as a distinct polity but then, in that case, so should many of the possible secessionist regions of France.. though you prefer not to acknowledge that. While as for economic harm, in the event of secession by far the most badly affected of the entities you cite will be poor little Scotland. At least if the rancid SNP dupes enough Scots (or more likely just manages to enfranchise enough children and foreigners) into leaving the UK, only to return to custody within the loathsome EU instead.

hype

You don’t need to be on 2025. If you have any knowledge you know at most 2 of the exemples will actually happened

@@cardoso1313 Rude

@@cardoso1313 what do you think those two would be? Just curious

need a note on that

Portugal is quite chill, but TAP is not. I'm never flying Air Portugal again

Portugal and Luxembourg are my two favorite countries lol

Next 4 years

Let's see how Scotland votes in May.

@@michaelleiper I personally like to see Scotland become independent. I will be happy if they do but can't see it happening in May, the Opinion polls averages about 54% (except for one, which is 58%) favoring independence. In the actual referendum people are usually more causes. Hope I am wrong.

Welsh independence is on the rise in Wales as well. With the last yougov poll putting it at 33% with it expected to jump to around 40% after Brexit was done. If Scotland leave the U.K. then Wales will be closely behind.

Let's hope this comment ages well

Stanistan unite!

He said they're hypothetical and unlikely 10:45

I'd say the most likely to join in the near future is Scottland but seing how UK's situation is actually, i dont think they will let them have indepence any time soon as the last thing they need right now is the UK starting to dissunite itself

I agree!

A fraction of the population? Well, 100%, 50% and 0% are all fractions so saying independentists are just a fraction of the population is the same as saying nothing. We have to look at the latest results in both Catalonia-wide and local elections (a lot of independentists usually abstain in the Spanish elections so they are always turn out to be under-represented in them) to get an idea of how many independentists are there in Barcelona city. Yeah, I know next February 14th there will be new elections and soon we will have new data to work with but for the time being the information we have is: Results of the city of Barcelona in the last Catalan elections (December 21st, 2017): Total votes cast: 910,133 Independentist parties (JxCat + ERC + CUP): 418,466 votes (45.98%) Unionist parties (C's + PSC + PP): 397,190 votes (43.64%) Neutral parties (ECP + PACMA + Verds): 94,477 (10.38%) Results of the city of Barcelona in the last local elections (May 26th, 2019): Total votes cast: 751,370 Indepedentist parties (ERC + JxCat + CUP + Primàries): 297,512 (39,60%) Unionist parties (C's + PSC + PP + VOX): 284,710 (37.89%) Neutral parties (ECP + PACMA + Other minor parties with less than 1000 votes each): 169,148 (22.51%) So there you are. I could look into the details of the last Spanish elections as well and we would most likely get a similar picture but as I said before, since a lot of independentists prefer to abstain in the Spanish elections, we would get a skewed representation of independentism's reality anyways, while the Catalan and local elections are much better at representing independentism, which is what we are talking about here. And what we see here is that in one election independentists are 45.98% of the voters in Barcelona city alone and in the other we get a 39.60% of the turnover. So according to the latest results independentists are somewhere between 39% and 46% of Barcelona's population. Certainly in the minority but far from a small minority. And when we consider the other two blocks of Catalan politics (unionists and neutrals) we see that independentists always happen to be the block that gets more votes out of the three blocks. That's noteworthy none the least. Note on the neutral parties: ECP is by far the largest neutral party (in each election it represents more than 90% of each neutral vote cast so speaking of the neutrals is basically speaking about ECP's stance). ECP supports the independentists in acknowledging that a self-determination referendum is necessary and that supporting independence may be seen as reasonable. Their official stanceof the party however is that they support the self-determination referendum along the other independentist parties but that they prefer voting no to independence and rather focus on changing the status quo in the whole of Spain (a referendum on the Third Spanish Republic or an Iberian federation are also some of their proposals). So while some of ECP's voters would certainly vote independence in an independence referendum, others would certainly vote for union so how many voters of ECP would vote independence and how many would vote union in a binary referendum remains a mistery.

@Svensk Drama 3 Basically because when people want to disregard something they are either against of or simply don't care about that much they simply say "that's nothing but a fraction/few people out there/just a bunch of radicals/etc." and they proceed to completely ignore reality. You can clearly see this attitude everywhere and this keeps us from having truly productive conversations. The most blatant examples of this I see in the Western world being desregarding relatively weird elements from Asian cultures. Chinese characters? Just weird writting system... That is used by nearly 2 billion people on a daily basis. Dharma? Just a weird religious concept... that all buddhists, hindus and jainists (that's nearly 1.8 billion people) believe in and regulate their lifes according to it. You see? It's not that I join the Western-civilization-bashing crowd (actually I hate that and I actually love and admire the incredible achievements of my civilization) or that I am unable to understand the cultural relativism that leads Westerners to see the aforementioned phenomena as 'weird'. It's just that I hate the typical discussion where nobody pays attention to facts and reality and they just throw some cultural conventions to it. You see? People disregard the topic saying 'Catalan independentists are just a fraction of the population of Catalonia and Barcelona' and that's it, and they keep having the exact same ideas they had before the conversation even started and all because their cultural framework leads them to think so. But now with my data they can clearly see that independentists happen to be a fraction...of somewhere between 39% to 46% of Barcelona's population (about 48% of Catalonia's population if you look at a Catalonia-wide scale). Now they can challenge themselves and ask themselves how many major cities in the world have about 40% of its population wanting to secede. Now they can ask themselves why independentists, while being a minority, happen to be more people than unionists judging by the results. Do you understand now? I'm sick and tired of people just throwing their misinformed opinions and their on-line tantrums where a discussion is supposed to take place. Bring challenging facts to discussion. Force them to re-evaluate their ideas.

Agreed.

Yea judging by how European Union has went for past 2 decades I have to sadly agree.. but maybe not being in a huge Union/United States is a good thing, separation causes more economic competition leading to more success overall

@@FriedrichBarb "separation causes more economic competition leading to more success overall" have you seen the united states? factually wrong.

@@tylermech66 Yea true it can be debated I guess, but I think America is an exception since it’s the size of Europe itself with 350+ million people who all speak the same language so, separation would just be unintelligent to

@@FriedrichBarb And when they did separate, the US shut them up

A hell of a lot of brits already realised. The EU showed how corrupt they was regarding the vaccine. Trying to decide where and who it went to. Even making it hard for it to get to the uk transport wise. Needs scrapping. Just a nazi party under a different banner

When Scotland's economy is larger than 12 current EU members, and larger by GDP per capita than 17 of them, it just shows how ridiculous it is to say they can't set up and maintain a working economy. If Scotland gains independence it won't be plain sailing but it's far from a de facto failed state.

@@jono_cc2258 you could also look at how bad the EU is if Scotland is better than 17 of 27 EU member states. It explains their €40 billion budget hole (and growing)... Coincidentally the rest of the UK is supporting Scotland to the tune of £41 billion a year! Not to mention that Scotland's deficit rise by 8% last year - and guess how much that is??? Over £36 billion and rising... Equivalent to 22% GDP...

@@daveofyorkshire301 interesting take I guess, I would point out that Scotland did have a surplus for over 4 decades which is often forgotten about. Add in that the UK as a whole borrows far more than the devolved nations spend and it's a case of the UK borrowing more than it raises every year. England doesn't support Scotland as it too borrows every year as well, it just doesn't have a handy breakdown. We need to fix the underlying issues of government waste, that's the real concern not about paper deficits that mean nothing in reality.

@@jono_cc2258 I wasn't claiming the UK or England are debt free, we too have a 12.5% deficit and about £250-300billion current debts (inclusive of Scottish debt).. from 2016-2021 it rose from about £77billion with COVID taking a huge chunk... But this topic is about Scotland isn't it, and Scotland is still handing money out like water, over a billion in £500 per household handouts whilst the rest of the UK pays for it...

As far as French DOM are concerned they decided through referenda to become integral part of France. In fact the most recent one is Mayotte. In 2009 more than 95% of the people from Mayotte voted to become a new department of France.

Tell someone from Martinique or Guadeloupe they are not French at your own peril!

Overseas are completely french, with a french culture. They don't want to be independent and never will. The only exception is new Caledonia which is not fully integrated to France, doesn't use the same currency and is inhabited by half french and half Kanak people.

​@@brewen_lmrch Never say never, keeping long distance large territories is not easy in the long term, not economically and not politically.

@@franstar1730 Yes I understand your point of view. But I don't see how and why french Guyana would like to take it independence in this century. One of my friend is from there and he also told me "But why ?? What could that change ? We would still be at the same place, speaking the same language and doing the same things"

Greetings from Slovakia, I would love to see independent Scotland

@_ S Stark _ Yes as an Indian of course you would say that lol Just find it funny how you say that whilst using European technology like internet, computers, electricity with majority of your subscriptions probably being European based with your profile photo being of a European show 😂🤣 Let go of the hatred and grudge towards us Europeans for what our ancestors did hundreds of years ago, it’s just plain unproductive will lead to unhappiness and literally none of the newer generations are to blame, we can’t change or control our History -.- Plus every culture/ethnicity participated in conquest/slavery was not exclusive to Europeans

Yes!!!! Definitely!! We'd be so glad to see Scotland liberated from this pure neo-colonialism that is the UK and finally join Europe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺

@@fauteuil1046 bro shut up, Scotland ain't no victim they were part of the colonialism aswell England, Scotland and Wales were partners in crime so stop complaining and EU ain't gunna let u in your be worse than Greece and they would have to deal with Catalonia problem and spain

@@kalyptro123 why

Well, the UK is a country that contains 4 countries so that idea isn't as crazy as you think!

Im for a united Europe but unfortunately i live in the UK

@@vanmantalks I think we also have a Volt party over there but I doubt it will ever grow in UK again :/

@@hunebedbouwer5755 I cant see the EU ever taking us back

@@vanmantalks The EU don't take you join or you leave its all up to you. But yeah don't think you will rejoin soon, maybe scotland tho?

Question is: When that part of the austrian constitution was written, did they intend it to mean that they cannot be part of any larger political unit that happens to include germany too? I mean, the EU isnt currently a country, but if it were to become one, im not sure if that particular rule was written to include the possibility of that happening. That rule was mostly written to prevent germany and austria doing Anschluss 2: Electric Boogaloo.

Laws can be changed.

@@Doso777 Well in Germany for example some parts of our constitution can never be changed.

@@extra_tof You guys ignored your own constitution in 2020 by repressing peaceful protests against the Lockdown

@@matheuspinho4987 Funny how uninformed you are.

Srpska je Srbija

@@sriyasodharmma4021 Shut up

If it becomes independence, I’m literally gonna cut Bosnia out of all my maps. The borders woud look discounting

Dream on Serbian nationalists. Something built on genocide and ethnic cleansing of non-Serbs cannot be independent nor legitimate.

@@alengrm7488 make me

no shit sherlock

@UC2-PkjRPiKqSToVIBCSNJ_A Muslim is a religion not a race

@@kbx2. r/woooosh

Only with lots more immigrants.

@@albinakemet2728 True

it does not matter, because the current times are still good. But there is a deep desire inside the swabian and bavarian people to separate, which will grow if the times are getting rougher. Greetings from Baden-Württemberg

@@hanszimmer9224 but it's minority in radical sectors actually, because a lot they show their German pride...Germany is a strong country..

They rather rule over all of Germany with their highly incompetent ministers like Scheuer or Seehofer I wish they'd become independent so we could get rid of them

@@sushi777300 The Grip the CSU Party has over Bavaria is actually stretching the meaning of Democracy into very uncomfortable zones. This party has ruled Bavaria with an absolute majority for the past 50 years! The entire administrative apparatus is controlled by that party, the vast majority of Bavarian judges are members of that party, so are highly-ranking law enforcement functionaries, prosecuters and even many public defense attorneys. Bavaria is a de-facto Oligarchy and many of the ministries CSU men hold in Berlin are working almost unilaterally for the benefit of the Bavarian State and cut federal funding for project in other States very disproportionately.

@@hanszimmer9224 But... why? Why would they want to leave? They’re not gonna do better than they’re doing now...

Will they care about that ?

@@1000eau Yes, we definitely would

@@1000eau Spain will, I assure you

Gibraltar Britain land and Ceuta melilla canaris Moroccan lands. Great Britain, don't worry, we'll fight for you

@@moncef9778 ?

So very true! If Catalonia wants independence from Spain & to form a Pan-Catalan union with Valencia & Andorra, it should be allowed to. Spain should not have any vote in whether it should join the EU.

Then again the whole idea of Prussia is militarism, which is believed by many to be the reason why Germany was so keen on invading everything. There was a reason it was destroyed

Modern germany is kinda prussia, not with the geographic regions but the history.

I was too young to vote on Brexit too but did vote labour in the general election to try and block it :(

@@Syrupeye I couldn't vote then either.

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I agree Peter, let the real Europhiles move over there. I never supported going in the 1st place, so glad we're out. @Peter Hicks

I am from Veneto, and saying "we just don't want to pay taxes" is just an insult to us. You should say, we don't want to pay taxes to a State (Italy) which easily waste huge amount of our sacrifices. If you don't like Veneto, just promote our leaving. But the fact is, Italy without Veneto (and I include Lombardy too), it would collapse. We want an efficient and fair State, not a mafia State.

Taxes was enough of a reason for the U.S. revolution.

The Dutch: Here we go fighting again! 2122: Dutch are independent again.

Joke on you but it seems like it. The Spanish government is trying to centralize more and more and its a very diverse country and a lot of regions aren't liking it.

The chances of an independent Catalan state being peacefully created is highly unlikely, even with a vote in favor of independence, a veto from the Spanish government would cancel the opportunity of independence. As COVID takes its toll on Europe the region's separatism has been seeing slowdowns.

Plus theres the treaty of Utrecht. Gibraltar cannot be independent. It has to be Spanish or British.

@@Chrischi3TutorialLPs Yes. I don’t see them going to Spain. They have their own unique identity the Gibraltarians.

@@Chrischi3TutorialLPs Surely Spanish politicians prefer Gibraltar became an independent micro state like Andorra rather than have it remain a self governing British territory. If Spain wants that, they can agree to forgo their right to claim Gibraltar if Britain gives up sovereignty.

@@cricketman1322 Gibraltar stronk

@@Dave_Sisson I don't think a fully independent Gibraltar is all that useful to Spain even if it were legally possible. It may even make things worse diplomatically. At least at the moment Spain is still able to earn global sympathy points by claiming Gibraltar is an indignation inflicted on the Spanish people by an unrepentant, Imperialist Britain (being careful not to mention Ceuta of course). It's an argument that works surprisingly well. However if Gibraltar were an independent microstate, Spain's constant pressure tactics would start to look not like standing up to an old imperialist, but like a bunch of bullies picking on the little guy. All that said, I'm British but I've personally nothing against the idea of power sharing between Britain and Spain. It really makes no difference to me either way. But if the Gibraltarians say no to that, then it's their call. If they ever voted to return to Spain, then they go with my blessing at least. Weirdly, Gibraltar has now been British longer than it was Spanish. The Spanish captured it from the Moors in 1462, and lost it to Britain in 1713. That makes 251 years. Britain held it from 1713 to the present date making 307 years.

Same with the UK. We’re not dissolving any time soon... ditto France. Strong nuclear powers.

@@NZAnimeManga It's different with the UK. There's a much stronger cultural difference and will for independence between England and the other Celtic nations

True. Independentists movements in Brittany are below 5% at the latest regional elections and it is decreasing

@@NZAnimeManga nah idk about that, Scottish independence polls are at the highest in recent history at 55%, and welsh independence polls are at 30%, the same level that Scottish polls were before their referendum

@@fauteuil1046 so you support them?

yes, but at the same time there are plenty of states with huge differences in their regions. fixing problems in those areas goes like this: the town has an issue and asks region for a help. region asks for money from country funds. the country can't help fully for some reason. the country asks eu. each of these steps takes forever to happen because things have to go through evaluations so many times. meanwhile if there was a centralized system and the town needed something to fix the issue, they would ask the region as before. but if the region can't help, they could go right up to the eu, skipping several national layers of buirocracy. also, if the similar issue has been happening across the country border in neighbouring region, instead of going region to country to neighbour country to neighbour region, regions could deal with the issue cross country on their own, again, without months of waiting for diplomatic resolve between higher leaders because InTeRnAtIoNaL pOlItIcS. this is causing a lot of problems in slovakia/hungaria area and politicians use it as an excuse to mess with one another on an international level despite people only wanting a little bridge across the border river between 2 willages to begin with. i'm pretty sure that it would be handy in many many other similar situations

@@sillyjellyfish2421 Well, it is always best to organize something on the lowest reasonable level of politics. This minimizes overhead and speeds things up considerably. Sadly that is not always implemented this way. We all have to live with some absurdities of politics and administration. However, these cities will directly apply for money from the EU. It does not need to pass all levels of administration. I would guess they usually apply for regional, national, and EU funds in parallel. There will never be a centralized system in the EU as we have in France or the UK. Even if the EU would become a country if would be more like Germany or Switzerland, but even this is quire far off. What is actually happening is the harmonization of laws and that is very useful and quite difficult. Now, I am sure that building this bridge between two countries would be far more difficult outside of the EU. The harmonization of traffic rules and building standards is very beneficial for such a project.

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Turkey does not want to be in the European Union. The current events show they are "buying time" in anticipation for the collapse of the union hence joining a Chinese or Russian based union. However the more overlooked possibility is that of a TURKIC union which is slowly starting to take shape...........

It's either the EU or a Turkic Union for Turkey. The former would be in the interest of the EU in the long run -difficult as it may look today.

@@direnius If a referendum takes place you'd get over 90% vouching for a Turkic union. Its just a matter of time as unbeknownst to the majority of the world Turkic countries have already created their own army! TURAN ORDUSU. Clear indication as to the intention of the future for these countries....

@@IZZY61PALA I have never heard about the army, but yes, a Turkic union is inevitable in the long run. Let's just hope that the rule of law and democracy manifests themselves in all of these countries. Without these, it's a difficult goal.

@@IZZY61PALA Lmao!!! :)))