They want the EU to be a superpower, but they don’t want to pay their NATO bill, in a nutshell. What they apparently don’t understand is, they will never be a superpower as long as they can’t pay their own bills. They’ll never be anything but our dependents.
They will never be a superpower without the credible threat of military force. That means they first need to actually cough up the money to have competent military forces and secondly, they have to demonstrate to everybody that they have the will to use it. The Yurps have neither. They suffer from the delusion that protest marches and stiffly worded letters actually matter. Everybody else in the world just laughs at them and always will.