In our non-dystopian setting, the Euro probably would not break -The Euro breaking into its original currecies would be an economic disaster by itself, so it would only happen of the economic situation was even worse. Notice that even now in our current crisis, no european nation (as opposed to the ever shriller press) is even considering to leave the Euro. Sicen we are triing to avoit such dystopia, the Euro survives -and honestly, moving towards unified currencies is sort into the whole "future space opera" setting (there is a reason fen use the Credit as their currency...)
But for it to remain stable the Central Bank must reform somehow, and start to work for all the economies in the union, insted of just the richest ones. Oh, god, even more bureaucracy. Let's use the powers of Handwavium for Good! Since bureaucratic thinking is anathema for handwavium tech, let's say European nations and institutions have gone through a darwinist process: The ones who remained mired in the old dinosaur, have been left in the dust, while the ones who changed have flourished. The EU looks the same at first sight, but it actally has been changing non stop, despite all the best efforts of the politicians. The Neptune ESA expedition is the perfect example, as in the old EU the idea would have burned and crashed years before they even got to the ship construction.
For the nation to join the fenspace, I have not even begun to research for a proper candidate, because I wanted to test the waters with the rest of you first. My starting idea would be a small and unimportant nation, (once) poor but that had completely changeds in one generation tnaks to the coming of the wave (er... dear lord, it's already been almost one generation since the wave...) Small, not only to prevent too drastic demographic chaneges, but also because gettign a nation in the tens of millinon to vote for the Convention (it comes without saying that the convention would only accept a full democratic vote) is several orders of magnitude harder.
And talking about demographics, we should think about changing then. As the end of the last season, we had 1,500,000 people. But that was also the end of the "setting up shop" phase of the colonization: Most of the basic infraestructure is done, and everything was ready for a population explosion. By 2022 we should have, at least, twice that, and maybe even up to 5 (or even ten!) million people living in the Solar System.
Not many people will move to an empty, unhabitabe planet. But 2015 Helium or Kandor? Full, beautiful cities, with homes, jobs, shops, pubs and cinemas? Those aren't savage wildernesses, they are incredibly exotic destinations.
But for it to remain stable the Central Bank must reform somehow, and start to work for all the economies in the union, insted of just the richest ones. Oh, god, even more bureaucracy. Let's use the powers of Handwavium for Good! Since bureaucratic thinking is anathema for handwavium tech, let's say European nations and institutions have gone through a darwinist process: The ones who remained mired in the old dinosaur, have been left in the dust, while the ones who changed have flourished. The EU looks the same at first sight, but it actally has been changing non stop, despite all the best efforts of the politicians. The Neptune ESA expedition is the perfect example, as in the old EU the idea would have burned and crashed years before they even got to the ship construction.
For the nation to join the fenspace, I have not even begun to research for a proper candidate, because I wanted to test the waters with the rest of you first. My starting idea would be a small and unimportant nation, (once) poor but that had completely changeds in one generation tnaks to the coming of the wave (er... dear lord, it's already been almost one generation since the wave...) Small, not only to prevent too drastic demographic chaneges, but also because gettign a nation in the tens of millinon to vote for the Convention (it comes without saying that the convention would only accept a full democratic vote) is several orders of magnitude harder.
And talking about demographics, we should think about changing then. As the end of the last season, we had 1,500,000 people. But that was also the end of the "setting up shop" phase of the colonization: Most of the basic infraestructure is done, and everything was ready for a population explosion. By 2022 we should have, at least, twice that, and maybe even up to 5 (or even ten!) million people living in the Solar System.
Not many people will move to an empty, unhabitabe planet. But 2015 Helium or Kandor? Full, beautiful cities, with homes, jobs, shops, pubs and cinemas? Those aren't savage wildernesses, they are incredibly exotic destinations.