[Old Teufel Hunden]

"LePen wants to get out of the EU and Hollande wants “to protect France’s sovereignty."

Does she want to get out of the EU or off the euro (i.e. out of the Eurozone)? IMO, the EU is beneficial for it's countries as long as it sticks to things like free trade, passports and travel. If it ever starts to get into things like foreign policy, raising armies and things that a sovereign country has control over, then it would be a bad thing. As far as I know right now it does not. I don't like how they elect lawmakers from each country to be part of this European Parliment. I don't know what kind of laws they can enact but I think as of right now it just has to do with the trade regulations and stuff like that. But you know how lawmakers are. I would be very afraid of them expanding their powers.

[Caulkhead]

“IMO, the EU is beneficial for it’s countries as long as it sticks to things like free trade, passports and travel”

It doesn’t though does it? The EU dictates some 75% of all the laws enacted by the national parliaments of its’ member states and punishes those who decent.

We used to have a perfectly good free trade group across Europe called the EEC, but the politicos had to grasp more power and try to turn it into a German run federal super-state and we are currently seeing the results of that greed for power and political hubris.