There are some great You Tube videos about this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m01uxhpyI8&feature=g-vrec
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96j0A7IXQKo&feature=g-vrec
In the 1970’s, the “eu” was sold as a benign trade pact (like NAFTA) but what the voters didn’t realize was that the eu was in reality a political pact. A pact with the ability to change local rule.
In nearly 40 years, the eu weaved it’s way into Europe by inserting its regulations into local laws, forming a clique highly-paid bureaucracies, manipulating banking laws and so on. The REAL goal of the eu is to become the “United States of Europe” by superseding local rule, bashing out local governance and becoming a socialist’s dreamland.
In the last few years, they have bullied countries who have rejected the Lisbon treaty (Ireland, France, Denmark) and rescinded election results in Italy and Greece. Greece is essentially a vassal state ruled by a three-man trifecture.
With local rule being stripped, economic enslavement, and established powers being overruled/outvoted by the poorer members, what will be left is severe nationalism and uprisings.
One more thing: If you search long enough, you will see the resistance by the eu, and its cronies, to allow it’s member states to vote on referendums to leave the eu.
England is having a nasty fight on this. The current English PM is stalling....attempting to run out the clock.