The notion of “60th Anniversary” is grossly misleading, because for decades there was not the completely overwhelming nanny state that the EU became in the past 20-25 years. A customs union and some degree of economic coordination (what used to exist) are very different from the kind of trans-national government, Euro currency, open borders b.s. that was thrust upon everyone with no proper debate or political processes.
The proponents of the EU continually make it out to be an all-or-nothing proposition, whereas in fact what existed 40 years ago was much better than what they have evolved into.
Then they try to pretend that Brexit means the UK is no longer part of “Europe” when ofc there could certainly be a new UK-EU relationship that does away with the Nanny EU and the open borders.
Actually, the nanny state was indeed in existence, but not to the degree it is now. The 1957 Treaty of Rome pushed the Common Agricultural Policy on any state that joined the EEC, which dictated who could grow what as well as where and how much. Also, the “transnational government” was in existence prior to the Treaty of Rome, having its beginnings in the Treaty of Paris that formed the predecessor European Coal and Steel Community.