Only a European drunk with the stale wine of statism would make such a statement with a straight face!
What the Eurabians still don't get is the pre-eminence of Individual Rights over anything that the bureaucrats can create, or governments can give. It is a simple idea, but sometimes simple ideas are hard to grasp.
All the convoluted bureaucratic machinations of the EU are nothing more than re-arranging the chairs on the deck of a sinking ship, for that is exactly what this once great continent has become, with the possible exception of Great Britain.
Yes, it is a "heavily regulated free market eurocracy "- it is what the EU has become - it is an oxymoron. Like I wrote in another post - the EU is a mutation - a many headed hydra - neither one thing nor the other. It is a mess.