A single language permits workers to go where the jobs are, whereas most Greeks and Italians are stuck where they are born. New Yorkers’ taxes subsidize public works, health care and the like in Mississippi through the federal government in ways the European Commission cannot accomplish."
This flaw in the EU structure was obvious from the beginning of its foundation. The EU is nothing but an attempt to do away with the nation state and the history, language and traditions of its various people. Every European is to be considered a mindless worker drone, laboring for the benefit of his EU overlords. All sense of national and racial and religious identity is to obliterated.
You have to remember the two previous advocates of a United Europe.
Napoleon and Hitler.