Are there any other historical incidents where several small countries peacefull fused into one big country?
>>1181110
Are you implying that's what EU is? it's closer to the hanseatic league.
>>1181110
The North American colonies, in a way.
>>1181110
That's not what the EU is or will be about (for at least a very long time)
Why does everything about the EU always have to be about becoming a nation state or getting rid of it completely? Why cant it be something else entirely?
>>1181136
As in not at all
>>1181200
Articles of Confederation were a hillarious clusterfuck desu
>>1181110
>EU
>Country.
As for your question: Several.
Look at this thing called "Empire." Trust me, you'd have answered your question.
>>1181272
Peacefully and preferably democratically is what OP is talking about.
He already made self masturbatory thread about EU yesterday where he was debunked
>Are there any other historical incidents where several small countries peacefull fused into one big country?
Not really. You needed nationalism to have countries as we understand them today and its fairly new ideology.
>>1181282
Switzerland
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
>>1181282
Well then, the meme
>HOLY
>ROMAN
>EMPIRE.
We laugh at it, sure, but it ensured shitloads of civic freedoms of its subject states.
The EU us just a big globalist joke.
OP's question: Switzerland.
>>1181425
didn't it start as an united Empire and became more and more divided because vassals gained more power?
>>1181170
Because we already crossed the line where it is not just a trade federation, and everyone is butthurt.