Research concerning regions and regionalism in Europe has recently become very popular. It is quite often underlined in the literature that European States are moving towards a
Europe of the Regions. However, there are still insistent voices that
Europe of the Regions is a phrase most commonly reserved for romantics and nationalists separatist who seek the dissolution of the states in favour of smaller regional identities.
Recently the Skopjan organization ,Rainbow affiliated in the known from the Europeans organization that call as
European Free Alliance
The EFA is the umbrella of all the regional and autonomist parties in the E.U. These people would love to see a Europe full of minorities and cultures.
However, there are still insistent voices that
Europe of the Regions is a phrase most commonly reserved for romantics and nationalists separatist who seek the dissolution of the states in favour of smaller regional identities like EFA organization.
As a consequence of Europeanisation, the regions have gained a more effective level of governance. This process was also encouraged by the European Commission, which has an institutional interest to develop a new level of legitimate government that bypasses the level of member states in some areas of activity. The example served here is that some nationalist parties, such as those in the Basque country and in Scotland, seek independent membership in the EU, and a scenario whereby member states would permit such a course of events would hardly be imaginable, either individually or collectively
Furthermore, it is stressed that the trend is correlated with a fundamental principle of European law, that is to say, with the principle of subsidiary . This leads to various forms of the institutionalisation of regionalism in the European Union and in the Member States as well.
Regionalism has its roots in the conservative and traditionalist reaction to the creation of the modern liberal nation-state. At the beginning of the European
Ironically the regionalism don't have to go very far away to find such a place.
What place?
The Balkans of course.
Recently EFA tried to find the Macedonian Culture in the Macedonia Region Greece. What was the result? Really I don’t know. But I know for sure that these kind of movements are known , predictable and of course easy to find solutions.Greece respect the minorities in its lands.But fight any voice of irredentism specially those that came from centers outside not only from Greece but the all Europe.
Skopjan Diaspora (propaganda) must be inform more well as about the European circumstances.