In varietate concordia? - Thoughts on the European Union
Looking back at the last one and a half years, I guess that I can safely say that I’m living the life that I always wanted. I work for one of the largest and most prestigious IT companies in the world, live abroad, and can afford not only some of the more expense products of said company, but also regular flights to my parents and abroad, so many in fact that even a frequent flyer card is paying off for me. The best part of the whole affair is the ease of my move abroad, to Ireland in this case. It isn’t the first move in my life, but it has by far been the easiest. No customs issues to deal with, no visa and residence permits to get, hell, not even a different currency to get used to. All in all, the advantages of a unified Europe, which I had seen since my school days in Austria, really became clear to me over the last year. Along with that came a very profound revelation: That it is possible to freely travel, trade, and settle within a continent who’s citizens had continually b