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If you take the triangle between London - Paris - Randstad (Amsterdam+) then we're talking about 60+ million people all connected via <4 hours of high speed rail where essentially everyone can speak English.

(Okay maybe in Paris only people under 40 can but in IT it's usually okay imo).

You don't need the entire EU, just a chunck of it that can carry the industry like Silicon Valley does for the US.