“The values upon which the EU was founded”?
This same line is used by the open borders crowd, here in the US.
Those values include “the rule of law” versus the rule “by man”. We don’t make laws based upon the plight or perceived plight of one or more individuals. What other countries do, I could frankly give a crap about.
The EU was founded upon the idea of an economic union. To that degree, that made sense. But it has since morphed into a nightmare morass of a bureaucratic cesspool in which the individual countries are ruled, remotely, from Brussels, without recourse, without a voice in this forced overlay upon their laws, that resembles nothing so much as having been militarily conquered. The elites who run this massive bureaucracy are paid minimally $150K a year with massive benefits. And there are about 50,000 of them, with a Euro population of about 742 MM. We have 535 senators and congresspeople, 75% of whom are complete morons. Imagine how much better life would be if only we had 2.1 times as as many of these flaming turds trying to run our lives and working to collect their grift. 1135 of them. They EuroBureaus live far better than the average Euro, even the average above-average Euro. Had Belgium militarily conquered the rest of Europe, implausible as that proposition may seem, the result would be precisely as it is today for EU countries.
With the possible exception of Germany, NO country would have ratified the EU had they known it would metastasize into the slimy behemoth it is today.
“The EU was founded upon the idea of an economic union.”
I believe the EU was founded, for all practical purposes, as yet another attempt by all parties to dominate all others - as Europe has done violently for millennia. This time, they just tried to do it peacefully, and simultaneously.
As usual, it fails.