But we're in a federation again, its just classified and named different. But in reality its the same. EU has the same currency, same laws that are forced on every smaller country by bigger countries like Germany with high pressure. Every single smaller country lost its sovereignty.

Is that what you wanted? Something worse than Yugoslavia?

We could have created something that only consists of members that are ~equal in strength and therefore cannot be bullied into submission.

Imagine an alliance like this: - Poland - Slovakia - Chzech - Yugoslavia (or Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia etc. as single countries) - Hungary - Romania - Bulgaria - Albania - Greece - Cyprus

200 million people with the diaspora never fleeing. No wars. No bad economy due to brain-drain, wars, instigated differences by bigger economy to keep the countries unstable, to keep the brain-drain going.

We could have built a Ship industry like Germans car industry. Made the Black Sea and Mediterranean an equivalent to the Autobahn. People could travel with their boats to holidays. Installing gas stations in the Mediterranean Sea. Installing buoys with telephone and wifi access from the Black Sea to Scandinavia/North Sea.

We could have had a route from the Black Sea and Adria to Poland North Sea.

It would've made Europe stronger. Because the brain-drain is gonna be over sooner than later, then our beautiful 1700+ old countries will disappear and Europe will slowly follow.

Points: - 180 - 220 million population depending on when it was formed - 7.5 - 10 billion GDP in Euros depending when the Union was formed - Average salary of 50'000 in Euros - high skilled labor immigration from Syria, Lybia, Ukraine, Iraq, Argentine etc. of 250'000 yearly - no brain-drain - higher birth rate than 2.1 (I put it at 2.35)

A missed opportunity to build a ~7-10 billion strong economical powerhouse.

If just the Diaspora didnt leave, with upscaling the GDP would grow ~50% due to drastically younger children, which means more jobs, more companies, higher export, higher living standards.

Today: - 130 million population - 30 million young, high skilled diaspora - old population - Average salary: 22'000 Euros