thesis since the 1960s within the EC/EU: it is easier for european industry to do business with the us than with their neighbors.

There are at least three hypotheses referring to the consequences of the trans- nationalization of production processes:

The importance of the nation state is declining.

a no-go within europe to accept and to announce in public.

The significance of the geographic division of the world into North and South, Core and Periphery is declining.

nothing to add.

A transnational capitalist class is emerging which transforms into a class-for-itself. | michael nollert, transnational corporate ties: a synopsis of theories and empirical findings, journal of world-system research, 2005

all intertwined.