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Silesians Vote in German Federal Elections [23]
First, outside the EU their would be duties to pay on imports and EU businesses would move to Poland and Germany. Second, as a stand alone (hahaha) economic miracle, on re-entry (if allowed) Silesia would have to pay into the cohesion fund to support Poland and the rest of the EU.
Silesia has no intention of being independent, just autonomous. Quite a difference.
I think it's totally wrong that Warsaw governs how Silesian tax money is spent though, letting the different provinces govern themselves could only be good for the country. Certainly I know from back home that local government do far more work for their localities than the central govt.
They would have to use force to get Spain to agree to that
Which might reignite ETA, can Spain afford to have 2 terrorist organisation bombing and killing people? Wouldn't think so.
It is fundamentally against the founding principles of the EU.
I'm not sure it is, surely people have a right to govern themselves?
I cannot see these regions making full breaks, I think that making regions more autonomous is the key. And if that's a test and they pull it off successfully then I cannot see a reason as to why regions cannot be independent.
Borders are fluid y'know, sure jaysus Poland used to be half the size of Europe and look at it now, I think it's less than 1/6 of what it was at one stage, was even wiped off the map for many, many years as we all know.
Countries change and unify and fall apart all the time. Sure the EU isn't even the first organisation to be establish common trade rules in Europe. The Hanseatic League was founded in the 14th C and sure Britain had the commonwealth over most of the planet.
I'm sure that over time the EU will continue to work, but it will eventually fail and fall and something akin to it will be eventually established again.
