A Greater Mediterranean Economic Zone
By Michael Boyajian
The European Union is merely one step leading to a greater Mediterranean Economic Zone based on the logical borders of the Roman Empire at its greatest extent and beyond. A region that was joined by Rome for trade purposes for a thousand years and not for any other reason like conquest for the sake of conquest.
From the European Union the zone would sweep from the Caucuses and Turkey through the Middle East and across North Africa all along the Mediterranean Sea. The zone will lift the entire region out of poverty and into affluence marked by technological innovation and expanded leisure time.
The European Union can be considered the north portion of this zone into which would merge the Caucuses and Turkey. Consider this Zone 1 of the overall zone. Then the Middle East would follow moving from Iraq and Syria south to Israel. Call this Zone 2. Zone 3 would be North Africa from Egypt to Morocco.
Each zone could operate independently for a time gaining needed balance and stability before merging together into a greater Mediterranean Economic Zone. Borders will then become seamless allowing travelers to move from one nation to another with a single unified passport as is done today in the EU.
Major international airport hubs will be established throughout the zone allowing for transfer flights to smaller airports. A network of trains and highways would be built further bonding the entire zone. Trade will move without tariffs between all the nations of the zone while individual nations retain their own cultures. Though they will share a single currency and postal system. A center of zone government will be located somewhere along the Mediterranean coast that is satisfactory to all participants sort of like the system in place in the EU. Wealth potential will overcome cultural and political differences.
The concept could then spread to other regions around the world leading to a unified world entirely at peace. Do you have doubts? Just look at a map of the Roman Empire and see the greater Mediterranean Economic zone laid out as plain as day two thousand years ago.