We'd be able to rival the Premier League!!!🤣 The shape of USB is very advantageous, traveling should be relatively swift, most highways are (almost) connected, no?

And we will not have to export players to bigger leagues anymore. Viewership would increase, prize money too. There'd be no incentive to leave. Look at the Netherlands and Belgium. Affluent countries but population way too small, not big enough of a viewership, they are reduced to a "selling league". And the population...France has 65 mill? Germany has 80 mill? Much easier to pool elite talent for a quality first league and have a decent 2nd league too.

With our small populations we always basically have to sell our 2-3 great basketball and football players in the league to the US or Central and Western European countries.

Same goes for the employment market😂 we emmigrate, we don't have immigration We do not pool talented immigrants, we are them.

If you're a small country, you better have either an amazing advantage (like the Rotterdam harbor that brings in so much money, or being surrounded by mountains not having to defend your borders like the Swiss, developing unobstructed) or a colonial past that has allowed you to perpetuate your dominion way past your empire days🤣

Be it through banking or corporations in the retail, lodging, automotive domains etc.

Such unions are not illogical. They were proposed during the Concert of Europe period (1815-1914). Two countries stand a better chance than one. In the empire times that meant survival against the threat of neighboring empires. We don't have empires anymore, but the economical dominion is still looming. How much can you really raise your head?

Granted, this union right here is way too big. I personally always wondered how successful and practical a union between Bulgaria and Romania would be. Very similar, brotherlike countries. We share a sea. Greece could be thrown into the mix. Maybe Hungary-Romania-Bulgaria.