continent-wide

This is one of the criticisms of the EU system: the currency is continent-wide, but there's no centralized bank regulator.

We've had (more or less) continent-wide peace now, for a good while (maybe the longest it's ever been?

Do you mean because they have been economically dominating less-developed nations of Europe, and you think they should instead aim for more continent-wide integration and development?

And which don't suddenly consecrate 300-1,000 year human-exclusion wildlife parks, and threaten continent-wide areas with toxic poison which cannot be sensed directly.

If the grid goes down continent-wide and stays down, we're not running computers or pumping liquid fuels anymore.

I can accept an argument that we need institutional violence to keep a continent-wide civilization in order.

Yes, if you have a widely distributed (continent-wide) network things may even out.

Trillionaires run continent-wide data centers, endlessly spinning up agents that hire cheap physical labor to scavenge the world for any spark of novelty.

That being said, I second the content, Europe is way too heterogeneous an entity to draw any continent-wide cultural conclusion.

It's true that Europe has a continent-wide mutual defense agreement now.

To be fair, Canada and Mexico are also part of the continent:-) Although you did say continent-wide and the US does span the entire width...

If they go down continent-wide, we could be without grid power for years.