IF you go back and look, the EU was formed to take advantage of the US on trade issues by it’s own admission. It has been quite successful at that, thanks to former weak US presidents.
The EU decided it could compete with us if they could operate like our STATES instead of like a group of individual COUNTRIES.
They got the Shengen agreements to allow border crossings as if you were going State to State instead of Country to Country. This setup played into the hands of the invading Muslims. Tom