The EU is a loose confederation — not even a strong confederation like Switzerland (where each canton is in many ways independent), forget about a strong federation like the USA or Germany.
And this coronavirus showed that - as a loose confederation of independent states, with no common health policy, it didn’t do anything. Each individual, independent, country did as it thought best.
The EU is a trading community and that’s the best for it — if they follow your post they would then ask for converting the loose confederation into a country — that’s a bad idea.
“The EU is a trading community and that’s the best for it — if they follow your post they would then ask for converting the loose confederation into a country — that’s a bad idea.”
You misunderstood my post, or I wasn’t clear. I was advocating that each country stand on its own. I’m fine with belonging to a trading block (like the common market used to be) but I would not favor a political union the way the EU wants to be. Let each country control its political and economic destiny - that’s what self determination is about.