You wrote:
I'm not saying the EU is perfect, very far from it but some of the benefits are:
I do not need to wear a uniform to kill fellow Europeans. (THE most important reason)
I get food cheaper.
I can work anywhere in the EU.
I can travel anywhere in the EU.
I have a large block of 450 million people behind me in trade disputes.
My whole nation benefits from a massive single market and harmony of company law.
It's basically a market of 450 million people instead (in my case) 50 million. Money and Peace, what's not to like?
My Reply: 100% agree with you. The changes thus far have been an improvement. The posters seem to feel that there is now an "extra" layer in Brussels. However they do not grasp the individual country laws that were recinded that opened up free trade between the E.U. Member states. It is not "more" laws, just more uniformity in laws. Makes it easier to do business.
However they do not grasp the individual country laws that were recinded
Now be reasonable. How do you expect a country with 50 State Constitutions under a U.S. Constitution to grasp something that complex?
That is pure Brussels propoganda, trade has not picked up as a result of the Zero, trade has fallen.
The one great selling point of the Zero, has not taken place.
Then what about unemployment, a mere 10.8 in Germany and 9.9 in France and neither figure includes all the people on "make work" schemes, which probably increase both those figures by 50 %. The EU average unemployment rate is near 9%.
So on a simple economic basis, it is a shambles, it cannot provide jobs for its citizens, the one role any decent society should try to achieve.