>>3683777Like it would work for even a day. Even if you only add rich european countries, the language barrier exceeds far beyond simple written and oral communication: countries like Belgium are proof that language is a barrier for an unified state. And even in federal entities language is still a problem: in Switzerland, for instance, regional identity, based on language, is deemed more important than the swiss nationality. The same thing would happen on the european scale, and the current opinion regarding the EU among the majority seems to indicate that.
In theory it would be nice, and a european federal state would indeed be the richest state in the world, but cultural differences are still too important , not to mention the historical luggage brought by centuries of war and conflicts.
