I always thought the EU was a bad idea. You cannot weld that many countries with that many different histories and values into one conglomerate without having serious problems.
The EU is doomed to failure because it tries to do too much. It is forcing “one size fits all” rulings on all its member nations, in efect micromanagement by a bunch of clueless bureaucrats in Brussels who think they know everything. The EU would work if it were an organization that made trade between member nations easier, and yes to the point of normalization of standards (technical and other product standards) to facilitate competition. But it goes as far as lawmaking and out of control regulation of local affairs with again “one size fits all cookie cutters”. Thus the rise in nationalist groups, some of them not politically right as we here know what the true right is (free market economics, economic and political freedom, etc.). The member states should be left to manage their own local decision making, much like the United States SHOULD be operating.
for example, the Basques and Catalonians are across France and Spain, the people in Brittany speak a Celtic language related to Welsh, the people of Alsace and Lorraine are frenchified Allemagnais Germanics, the Polabians are Germanised Slavs, the Balkans are filled with mixed ethnicities etc.
And the EU has enabled entities that cross borders like in South Tyrol -- diffusing a lot of tensions.
Also the chances of a European war are also dissipated by the EU.
However I agree that that is where the EU should end. No president of the EU.
Instead of this, the EU should be replaced with Christendom.
pnh - read my post above that there is no procedure to leave.
for example, the Basques and Catalonians are across France and Spain, the people in Brittany speak a Celtic language related to Welsh, the people of Alsace and Lorraine are frenchified Allemagnais Germanics, the Polabians are Germanised Slavs, the Balkans are filled with mixed ethnicities etc.
And the EU has enabled entities that cross borders like in South Tyrol -- diffusing a lot of tensions.
Also the chances of a European war are also dissipated by the EU.
However I agree that that is where the EU should end. No president of the EU.
Instead of this, the EU should be replaced with Christendom.
pnh - read my post above that there is no procedure to leave. Remember that the Eastern Europeans also got a lot of money from Germany etc. to build their infrastructure. And they have a lot of investment from Germany.