Last train to Brussels, waiting room packed with people going to Paris too, I couldn't find any seats, so I sat a table meant for Pret customers but didn't order anything. Waited 40 minutes there, nobody said anything.
Given than in Europe monarchs seem to be more popular than politicians, I just had the idea that instead of a federation, we could have a federal constitutional empire, lead by an Emperor who wouldn't have any political power, but who would embody the unity of the continent and act as a figurehead all the peoples of Europe could look up to. This would be in the traditional of the great multinational European empires of the past, like the Holy Roman Empire or the Austro-Hungarian one (and of course, the first empire of all, the Roman empire). Am I crazy?