One thing the surge of the 'yes' vote in Scotland might do is create a need for national governments to not get caught with their pants down the way UK government was. After all, independence is a sliding scale, not a binary thing, and a lot of options can be offered to areas wanting more autonomy.
I guess you could also argue that with the introduction of EU, the national governments are slowly becoming just middle management anyway.
And of course there's also an increasing amount of people who consider themselves to be as much Europeans as they are of any one nationality.
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