This is a good and insightful observation -- but the EU goes beyond socialism, it reaches the level of an oppressive, unrepresentative bureaucracy. One that subverts sovereignty. I think the socialism of the EU is really terrible, but I think the bureaucracy that undermines the sovereignty of these countries is just as pernicious. Many of the people voting on the constitution don't understand that their countries will really just be provinces of the EU subject to the whims of calluous and PC bureaucrats.