It would seem that for the future the nation-state will undergo sharp limitations of its sovereignty, occupying a twilight zone between full national independence and real international authority. This erosion of sovereignty has already begun with the development of a truly global marketplace.
Capital investments flow across national boundaries unnoticed.
Transnational corporations buy and sell anywhere. Domestic economic issues have become routinely involved in international policies. Nowhere has economic self-sufficiency been more dramatically reduced than in Brussels. Brussels, the center of the European Union, prescribes everything from working conditions to the contents of cheese. Furthermore, there is a serious sense of European citizenship, along with the rights that go with it, and laying the basis for a supranational identity.