The EU was always designed to be imperialistic. Including the so-called “economic community” version. Ireland’s Third Amendment of 1972, which had to be approved by referendum in order to join this abomination, had language in it that gave EU dictates “the force of law in the State”, which means that this was an entity that was destroying national sovereignty even back then. The treaties that formed each iteration of this union always contained clauses in its articles referring to “accordance with the principles of the Charter of the United Nations”—and that charter is a clone of the 1936 USSR constitution as designed by Stalin. And if the Eurasian Union has any likeness to the EEC, things are working similarly there as well; after all, they have greater familiarity with it.
The USA was founded as the antithesis of entities such as the EU, but the left-wing politicians here have been pushing to make us into its clone. Obama has been doing the most to make things that way, acting as a one-man version of the European Commission (although not a one-man show if all of the bloated unconstitutional executive departments are taken into account).
When the Common Market was founded in 1957 it was mainly a trading alliance with a bureaucracy set up to oversee it. Like any bureaucracy, it’s main mission is survival and expansion. And so, of course, over the years, the elites that ran it looked to gain ever more power, and they have been very successful.
It’s why the founders called for “peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.”
I find it extremely encouraging that Trump has embraced the exact same policy. It’s why he’s against NAFTA and TPP and TTIP. He made it very clear that he favors bilateral agreements, rather than monstrous thousand page agreements among many countries that end up superseding our own constitution and doing away with our sovereignty. It’s exactly how the european countries ended up where they are.