National democracy ? Now granted I'm all on board ''we actually don't have really democracy in are lives'' commie train but I don't think wanting to turn Europe into a federal state is the answer. And certainly want go down well with some european countries.
Verhofstadt ''The reason you Italians have 0 growth for well over a decade now is because you haven't got the same political power as Vermont''
I'm sure it will go down like a charm.
See, I think the nation state is a dying construct that will eventually have to be replaced. Maybe not in our lifetime but who knows? Their significance and power is ebbing rapidly as companies like Google and Amazon grow and attain unprecedented power and influence.
I don't think local, regional democracy - which is a good thing! - necessarily has to be done within a nation state. Right now there would be HUGE resistance to any other organisational structure, I know. But that can, should and probably will change eventually.
These may be radical views, in the sense that they are significantly different from the status quo. But the comparison to Trump is unfair and unwarranted.