Many "Europeans", both left and right, believe that the category of "nation-states" (Etat-Nation), i.e. the traditional centralist state has completely outlived itself, and that emphasis should be placed precisely on two other modalities on regionalism and even autonism, on the one hand, and on the continental unification of regions into a single bloc, on the other hand. It is significant that the points of view of the polar political spectra converge here: the "new left" consider the Etat-Nation too "right", too "totalitarian" and "repressive", too "conservative" education, which should be abandoned in the name of progress, and " the new right, "on the contrary, the same nation-state (Etat-Nation) is considered too" modernist ",too anti-traditional stage of European history, when the truly traditional European Empire was destroyed by nihilistic and secular French absolutism. In addition, the “new right-wingers” see in regionalism a return to ethnic traditions and to the principle of ethnocultural differentiation, which is the axis of all “new right-wing” thought.