duilleog

Genuinely curious as to where this isn’t elementary knowledge?

Are you from a region that never had a similar practice or one where it has become inconspicuous, e.g. father of the bride “giving away” their daughter?

Sheep. It looks like a crook.

Who puts it back together?!

Most articles in this vein use Europe for shorthand for the EU. Chileans and Bolivians feel similarly about America being used as shorthand for the USA.

The EU is obviously more than a common market today, evidenced in law, courts, institutions, schools, banks, telecoms, arts, society, science. It has a definite common identity, albeit one that is typically not predominant by design. It doesn’t detract from national identities.

Could be a great time for small services and modular subscriptions (e.g. block stores or MTAs). I wouldn’t trust many small VPS’ to host an organisation, but it is fine for me personally.

Hopefully enough stable income exists to grow a cottage industry of small infra and protocols lower the barrier to entry/migration.

I would pay for access to an artisanal data center of the finest organic hosts, tenderly shepherded by third generation sysadmins.