Re: IT angle?
" I've never heard of anyone promoting the idea of dividing Germany again though, have you?"
They aren't very loud, but they certainly exist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_separatist_movements_in_Europe
Prior to the nuclear stalemate, re-arranging European boundaries every 50 years or so was pretty much de rigeur. At the present time, the excuses for centralisation (financial and defence) are pretty much covered by the ECB and NATO. (Obviously one of these insitutions is currently working rather better than the other, but the official line is that both are here to stay.) That leaves the way wide open for the larger nation states to fragment in line with regional preferences. We have Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia as examples so far. (Ukraine is a work in progress.)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
