| Comment | There's an important difference though in that successful European federal states are, largely, nation-states which are federated for historical/political reasons - e.g. Germany. Elsewhere, where federalism has been attempted as a solution to internal strife between different peoples/nations coexisting within the same state, it has been a far less rosy picture, e.g. Belgium. And the closest extant equivalent to a federal UK, still overwhelmingly dominated by England, would probably be Spain's quasi-federalism, which... well. |
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