But does this give them power and over what?
I’m a blonde. Be patience. LOL!
They don’t care so long as the people acquiesce to a strongman. That was the vision of Monnet and the other founders of the EU.
Karl Marx’s idea of starting utopia (really dystopia) always involved tearing down all facets of modern society, or as the last chapter of the Manifesto put it, “They (the communists) openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions”, and (as he once said to his future wife Jenny Westphalen), “Then shall I stride through the wreckage a creator”. The people who started the EU have a similar dystopian outlook; if they start a crisis, they already have a solution for it on the planning boards.