DaveDann
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‘large kingdoms like France and Great Britain’
Great Britain is smaller than the state of Michigan, for example, though larger than Vermont.
The regionalisation of Europe is an interesting idea. Unfortunately when it is pursued as a policy by the central EU bureaucracy it could be a centralising influence since the regions are not able to counter the central power as much as the nation states were. The central EU bureaucracy shows little sign of abolishing itself.
The map of England is virtually that of the old Anglo-Saxon heptarchy yet those seven kingdoms have been effectively united since at least 973AD with the coronation of Edgar at Bath Abbey. I think we can call that ‘resilience’.
In my opinion a bigger problem in England currently is the overwhelming power and wealth of the money factory called London that distorts all economic life here.
