[Poohbah]

Vaclav Klaus, who does have the equivalent of an advanced degree in Leninist studies

Either he has one, or he doesn't. Which is it?

[Maceman]

Basically, the EU is a mechanism allowing governments that have expropriated so much from their people that there's nothing left to expropriate can now expropriate from the people of other EU nations.

The EU is a desperate und ultimately unsustainable attempt to prop up the failing welfare state society by enabling EU nations to steal from each other until the inevitable collapse.

Your basic "Atlas Shrugged" scenario.