If we ever turn socialist, Europe needs to be balkanized in order to make sure the European powers could never again rise up to the power they previously held and continue terrorizing the world.
So, how would we balkanize Europe? What would make a region of lets just say: France suitable to become independent and weaken France as a whole. What regions should become independent?
Regions with their own nations (including culture, language, and shared territory) should have the right to self-determination, which means they can become independent if they want to. For example, Catalonia, Galicia, and (southern) Basque Country could secede from Spain; Corisca, Normandy, and Brittany could secede from France; Sicily, Venice, Sardinia could secede from Italy; and Wales, Scotland, northern Ireland, and maybe the Isle of Man and Cornwall could secede from the UK. Geographic regions that don’t correspond to their own nation like northern England should not be independent.
Don’t forget the Occitan speaking region in southern France. The French nation building project was constructed on cultural and linguistic genocide of the Occitan people. The most natural grouping of this region is not with northern France but with Catalonia which shares the same heritage. There are also parts of south-western France that would join a Basque Country.
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