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In OTL the Austro-Hungarian empire disolved due to ethnic tension. Much of this ethnic tension was motivated by priviliges for Germans and Hungarians.

What if another solution was presented to the Austrio-Hungarian question? What if the empire was federalised? Federalisation instead of seccesion.

How would the empire be federalised? Should each commune have a census and belong to the majority ethnic group? Or should ethnic federal states be carved out on a different basis? Which basis? How would the map look like?

What effects would federalisation have on the economy of the empire? During WW2 a problem for the Austro-Hungarian empire was that the train systems of diferent regions did not fit each other, something that decreased the transportation effiancy.

Was federalism ever a possible soulution for the Austro Hungarian empire?

Something to dig into:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_Greater_Austria
http://euromaidanpress.com/2017/10/...-is-hungary-aiming-to-grab-a-part-of-ukraine/
http://trianon-dilemma.blogspot.no/2011/01/communique.html
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