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really silly proposal from 1920 in a Vienna pamphlet to create a european union, the divive the continent in 25 city cantons
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There's a serious argument to be made that a new regime should break existing lower-level government units. It would scramble entrenched power structures that might present opposition, and force regulatory and financial arbitrage players to rethink their current strategies.
Now, the nuts and bolts of implementation...
This would only work with physical infrastructure that supported it. The existing road and trade networks don't respect these straight lines. If you want to decide Europe like this, do it using the boundaries of existing infrastructure.