Europe would be stronger as federations of homelands (as De Gaulle envisioned) with strong local rule and respect for local traditions and common Christian heritage.
Unfortunately EUrocrats are rabid secularist, gentler in methods but not less hostile to the Church tan Bolsheviks. They hate Christianity so much that they will bring in Islamic countries to use one religion against the other and to try to establish the atheistic utopia of John Lennon.
Imagine Imagine there's no heaven, It's easy if you try, No hell below us, Above us only sky, Imagine all the people living for today... Imagine there's no countries, It isnt hard to do, Nothing to kill or die for, No religion too, Imagine all the people living life in peace... Imagine no possesions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man, Imagine all the people Sharing all the world... You may say Im a dreamer, but Im not the only one, I hope some day you'll join us, And the world will live as one.
I don't think they understand the theory behind federalism. The idea is to have as much as possible decided at the local level, and leave to the federal government only those things that must be handled centrally. Instead, they are trying to handle as much as possible at the level of the central government, and leave only those things which absolutely cannot be handled at that level for the local politicians.
That's not the way to maximize freedom, and it's bound to cause friction. Their response is to simply ignore their own laws because they are impractical, which is something they are good at doing anyway. It will ultimately spell their demise.