Eight countries—the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia—became members in 2004; Bulgaria and Romania followed in 2007. A Europe of nation-states would be preferable to the disjointed, ineffectual EU of today.
In the 19th century Europe was divided into many different nation states. ... New nationalist states were the result of many wars that broke out thought Europe. Wars such as the Austro-Prussian War in 1852 crushed Austria's influence on nationalism.
