
Freddy Heineken
( 1923-2002 ), the Dutch baron who doed his beer into a planetary marque, too was a dedicated Europhile. Towards the terminal of his life, he suggested reshuffling Europe 's national mete to fortify the supranational undertaking whose told end is an `` ever closer brotherhood ''.
Heineken cooperated with two historiographers to produce a leaflet entitled `` The United States of Europe, A Eurotopia? ''
Theidea was well-timedly, for two grounds. Eastern Europe was seing a period of upheaval, following the prostration of communism. The ensuing wave of patriotism conducted to the re-emergence of several nation-states (i.e. the Baltics ) and the dissolution of several others ( Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia ). And in 1992, the Maastricht Accord would transform an initially principally economical `` Eec '' into a more political `` Eu ''.
Heineken 's proposal would take to the creation of 12 of new European provinces
, which would hold a comparably smallpopulation size ( mostly between 5 and 10 million ), some footing in history, and mostly would be ethnically homogeneous.
The theory behind Heineken 's thought is that a biggerer figure of littleer member-states would be easier to order within a individual European model than a combination of biggerer provinces vying for laterality. Heineken might hold been enlivened by the work of Leopold Kohr
, whose similar proposal was discourse before on this blog ( #18
Here is a listing of commonwealths suggested in the `` Eurotopia '' detailed by Heineken Ea, with their capital metropolises and population figures. Numbers agree to the ones on the map:
Scandinavia
1 Iceland Reykjavik252.000
2 Noreg Oslo4.200.000
3 Sverige Stockholm8.500.000
4 FinlandHelsinki4.900.000
5 Danmark Copenhagen5.100.000
British Islets
6 Scotland Edinburgh5.100.000
7 Ireland Dublin5.100.000
8 Northumbria York8.000.000
9 Lancaster Manchester5.400.000
10 Cambria Cardiff2.900.000
11 Mercia Birmingham7.400.000
12 East-Anglia Cambridge5.300.000
13 Essex London8.300.000
14 Wessex Plymouth5.900.000
15 Kent Southampton5.400.000
Depression countries/Central Europe
16 Holland-Zeeland 's gravenhage6.500.000
17 Ysselland Arnhem6.000.000
18 Flanders/Vlaanderen Bruxelles7.800.000
19 Hainaut/Henegouwen Lille/Rijssel7.100.000
20 Schleswig-Holstein Hamburg6.100.000
21 Hanover Bremen7.900.000
22 Brandenburg Berlin6.000.000
23 Saxony Dresden7.900.000
24 Westfalen Mnster7.900.000
25 Nordrheinland Dsseldorf9.200.000
26 Thringen Erfurt8.300.000
27 Rhein-Moselland Mainz5.100.000
28 Frankenland Nrnberg5.100.000
29 Bavaria/Bayern Munich6.000.000
30 Baden-Wrttemberg Stuttgart9.600.000
31 Poznan/Posen Poznan6.200.000
32 Silesia Wroclaw8.200.000
33 Danzig Danzig5.500.000
34 Warzawa Warsaw7.600.000
35 Galicia Krakau7.400.000
36 Bohemia Prag6.300.000
37 Moravia Brunn4.000.000
38 Slowakia Bratislava5.300.000
39 Oesterreich Vienna4.500.000
40 Noricum Graz5.000.000
France
41 Picardy-Normandy Rouen4.900.000
42 Ile-de-France Paris10.300.000
43 Burgundy Nancy8.000.000
44 Neustria Nantes8.200.000
45 Aquitania Bordeaux7.400.000
46 Auvergne Lyons6.500.000
47 Provence Marseille6.500.000
Iberia
48 Galicia-Asturias Santiago de Compostela4.400.000
49 Castilia Madrid9.100.000
50 Navarre-Aragon Bilbao4.100.000
51 Catalonia Barcelona6.000.000
52 Valencia Valencia5.500.000
53 Andalusia Sevillia8.000.000
54 Portugal Lisbon10.300.000
Switzerland/Italy
55 Switzerland Berne6.600.000
56 Piedmont Turin6.200.000
57 Lombardy Milano8.900.000
58 Venice Venice6.500.000
59 Toscana Bologna7.500.000
60 Umbria Rome7.400.000
61 Puglia Bari5.700.000
62 Napoli Naples8.600.000
63 Sicilia Palermo7.100.000
Balkans/Greece
64 Hungary Budapest10.600.000
65 Croatia Zagreb4.600.000
66 Bosnia-Herzegovina Sarajevo4.100.000
67 Srbija Beograd8.500.000
68 Albania Tirana5.000.000
69 Transyvlvania Cluj-Napoca7.500.000
70 Moldova Bacau5.000.000
71 Wallachia Bucuresti9.000.000
72 Bulgaria Sofia8.900.000
73 Uskub Skoplje1.900.000
74 Greece Athinai10.300.000
75 Cyprus Nicosia688.000
While an interesting conversation piece, Mr. Heineken 's proposal is rampantly unlikely
, as no Eu member-state is eager to be dismembered or dissolved for the greater good. The Dutchman went in the yr his `` Eurotopia '' program was printed. The Common market holds since proceeded to expand eastwards, getting ever more unmanageable as the figure of member provinces increased. Whether chopping biggerer provinces into littleer ones with less historical luggage would do the decision-making procedure within the Europium easier or more hard, will belike rest a purely academic query.
Many thanks toTheo Hoebinkfor directing therein map and Marc Vlek, Jan Noordam and others for besides advising it.