Congress of Vienna-Better Decisions?

I was reading up on the whole Polish-Saxon crisis today, and I started to wonder, what were some of the major mistakes in the CoV? For example, would it have been a better idea for Russia and Prussia to call the Western bluff and go through with the annexations?
 
The Republic of Krakow was odd, and many of the newly created German states went beyond odd, but overall, the Congress of Vienna was a pretty impressive feat. In an ideal world, they would have created an independent Poland and a confederation of Italian states that was separate from Austria, and given all those states constitutions and parliaments, but realistically, fgor what they actually could do, they did remarkably well. I can't think of anything that could be considered as a serious mistake by the lights of the time, except the fundamenntal dedication to legitimism, reaction and the predominance of the Russian-Austrian-Prussian troika. And that was a feature, not a bug.
 
Inclined to agree. The best one can do is tinker with it.

With 20/20 hindsight, it might be better if Russia got Posen and Prussia Saxony, with the King of Saxony (who was Catholic) getting Lombardy and Venice for a Kingdom, while Austria kept Belgium and maybe got the left bank of the Rhine as well. That Improves things in Italy, which Iirc was the worst running sore, while the others are at least no worse off. Not especially likely though.
 
I think that the German confederation could have been set up much better if from the beginning an economic union was implemented and standardized currencies, measures etc. were implemented.

Additionally, there should have been a similar organization for Italy, also with certain economic policies. If the Mezzogiorno had been souvereign and economically integrated with the North, its relative decline could have been avoided.

Another idea: what if Alsace would have been made an independent state within the German confederation? Could develop into a Luxembourg-like buffer or could voluntarily join either side, thus making clear its allegiance once and for all.
 
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