The EU is roughly analogous the United States in the 1830s.
It’s trying to form a centralized government and create institutions of central power, over a group of formerly independent and disparate states.
Of course, one big difference is they are coming at this from the opposite direction - using top-down mandates, neo-marxism, social-engineering and controlled-media centralized propaganda to force this union.
I'm waiting for publication of Uncle Tom's Peat Farm.
AND they have reps that are appointed, not elected