That is because the EU is an oxymoron - free market yet regulated - that is its problem, my sub par fellow American. Sort of like how NAFTA is about free trade yet is regulated like hell.
Too bad I wasn’t the one making the argument that NAFTA was a free market, free trade treaty, you pontificating euro-trash moron. Your patronizing attitude toward the people on this board is revolting. I don’t know about you but I’ve never even heard the EU being discussed on talk radio, which is clearly where YOU’RE getting your limited information.
The EU is what it is, a disparate body of states trying to be the United States of Europe. In reality it was nothing more than an attempt at a cartel, destined to fall apart from the weight of its parties’ own self-interests.