... world we need a healthy business climate to build startups and innovate, which helps Europe's competitiveness and economy. But we also need to unify more I think. The EU and especially the European Commission with its overregulation and pettiness did more in the last decade to make people opposed to a federal union than to see the benefits of it. But it has benefits if it's executed properly, see the United States. Comment from levelsio(@levelsio): @raphael_schaad ... ... party punch. The EU doesn't include Switzerland (where I live) or the UK (which are certainly Europe too) and it represents a certain (failed imo) philosophical approach to European coherence to which you're proposing an alternative