I would put the EU mechanism in the same category as the US-Congress system. The idiots should meet for 90 days in the spring and 60 days in the fall, always retreating back to the states/countries. Once they brand themselves to all being the master-solution to every problem, they simply screw up the whole thing.
I walked around a fest in Mainz, Germany last year. Big billboards in German....to appreciate the EU because it funneled and paid for several cultural projects in the city, and half of the fest cost was from mother-EU.
Me? The skeptical one? I’m thinking while reading the poster...the idiot German handed tax money over, which got diverted into some EU pot, and the EU ‘Lord’ is handing down a grant for special things they want to fund, and the sign is supposed to signal me that I should appreciate that mother-EU gave funding for the city for culture and the fest.
That’s true for Germany. In Poland you see a lot of those boards too — the deal is that even if the EU pays for 1% or something of that, you gotta put up that board.
In the case of Poland I think we got a lot more money from the EU and it has really, really improved the infrastructure and business environment