is the divided Europe of today an old picture of ancient Greece before it emerged as one nation?

Question

what i mean is that ancitent greece first was a divided nation, we had the city state of sparta, athens, thermopaly, etc.
their were ruled by different governments and kings untill persia attempted to invade greece, then they became united agaisnt persia and eventually becae one government and one nation
is it similar to europe of today?,
we are aready recognsie ourselves as europeans (well we can if we want to) and we already have some form of government (the EU). also do you believe that we need another major war for europe to become truly a united Continent?

Answer 1

Politics, they say, makes strange bedfellows. War makes the strangest ones of all.

The European Union is basically a trading partnership, a sort of co-op. There are plenty of disagreements about all sorts of things - Britain and Sweden won't use the Euro, some countries still drive on the left, Britain supported the USA in Iraq but France wouldn't.

Quite truthfully, I believe that there is a big division in Europe over whether or not Islamic fundamentalist terrorists threaten all of western civilization or will quit their nastiness if the USA and its allies pull out of Iraq. (I have friends of various nationalities on both sides of the argument)

This is the major war that is already looming and there is no agreement on it now. So, no, a major war will NOT make Europe a truly united continent.

Answer 2

Quite a good question because divided Greece was a great civilisation, while united Greece was and is a backwater. Europe's dwindling population and economic rigidity seem to be leading it to simply wither away. It could be like the has-been Greece of Roman times.

Answer 3

Greece didn't become one government one nation after repelling persia. After briefly uniting to fight the Persians, they soon settled back into squabbling city-states. In fact, the states fought each other more often and more viciously after the persian wars. I don't think that's the outcome you envision for a united Europe.