There is no question the present version of the EU is a political monster and you better crash it with no survivors.
Union among European nations is, however, definitely needed. Despite being rich, at the end of the day you are a bunch of minuscule countries caught at the crossroads of the world, everyone is coming out to get you, and you cannot be depending on US defense forever as that country is a degenerate monster itself.
Wish the EU existed as a free trade and defense treaty among European countries, not an attempt at United States of Europe (or Union of European Socialist Republics to be more accurate).
Freedom of movement was also a good idea provided that outer borders of outer nations were heavily controlled, and poor nations like Bulgaria and Romania were not allowed in just to spite Russia.
But alas, what the EU turned out to be has probably ruined the concept of a close-knit alliance between European countries for everybody.
eu is bad if you are western europe, great if you are germany (since it mainly serves to give power to germany, being the most populous and wealthy country in continental europe) and decent if you are eastern europe since it allows you to migrate to western europe and get gibmedats from them either way.
Jace Torres
the EU is a plot by americans to turn europe into a controllable shithole that is willing to get nuked by russia
Jeremiah Davis
i don't understand your pic. why is UK there. i mean, come on, it's 2016. UK shouldn't be there.
Gavin Gonzalez
>Centralised power
How did that work out for the Romans? Or Alexander? Or the Catholics? Or the Moors? Or the Soviets? Or the Nazis?
It's almost as if everyone that has tried to unify different races, cultures, countries and histories under one government has had it all turn to shit.
Brace yourselves for Germany denying an Italian bailout before the end of current year.
Luke Harris
Ode to Joy being a shit national anthem and the EU flag being bland is the real problem here.
Jacob Gomez
Well Catholic era was pretty much the golden age of Art, Philosophy, and Culture. Too bad some German (as always) ruin the fun
Jackson Butler
the us is the only reason why we arent a fucking commie shithole
Elijah Edwards
One problem is that they ignored all the apparent problems and happily expanded when the economy was good, and now that various crisis are happening they come crashing down.
Justin Peterson
>>Centralised power >How did that work out for the Romans?
get a load of this faggot
David Robinson
Gypsis and muslims destroyed freedom of movement EU was great when it was just european and not eurabian. Another great thing ruined by the krauts.
Hunter Reyes
Why was Switzerland not let in the EU? Too much capitalism? Or as they say "anti-competitive" (too competitive)
John Sanchez
they didn't want to join
Nolan Phillips
They weren't retards
Ethan Perry
>Wish the EU existed as a free trade and defense treaty among European countries, not an attempt at United States of Europe (or Union of European Socialist Republics to be more accurate).
There's nothing wrong with many European regulations, the Union has done a lot to protect our health, our safety, social security, the environment and our civil rights and liberties. A lot of which has been completely ignored outside EU just to protect the corporate interest and profit instead of social progress.
Now what governments shouldn't do is bailout banks and corporations, the fact that we have corporations and banks that are too big to fail means that governments have failed to regulate them properly. We tried to fix this in the European union through The Liikanen report and banking reform proposals but they were watered down by member states like Germany and the UK.
Why, thanks for your insight into European matters, you non-European spic subhuman shitskin.
Landon King
They withdrew their application because they foresaw the shitshow.
Gabriel Cook
fixed
Jose Butler
>Ireland
not yet
You can't unify Europe. The Romans couldn't, Carolus Magnus couldn't, the Habsburg couldn't, Napoleon couldn't, Hitler couldn't and the Soviets couldn't. And you know what? I love it! We are a diverse continent.
Should we cooperate on matters like defense and scientific projects and have free trade deals? Of course. I feel some sort of commonship with the Fingols and the Spaniards and so on. But that's about it. Freedom of movement was a shitty idea. Every state can decide on its own who to let in.
Levi Kelly
>the us is the only reason why we arent a fucking commie shithole
If they had stayed out of ww2 in Europe completely... Germany would have won
Ian White
>what the EU turned out to be has probably ruined the concept of a close-knit alliance between European countries for everybody
ok, how do you know this? you're not in Europe, if anything this will unite us in a more natural way.
Justin Bennett
It was always bad, and always intended to be what it's moving toward today. Anyone who still pretends otherwise is a gullible schmuck.
Carter Clark
>Stating the obvious
Evan Thompson
>this coming from a Kraut
That denazification program makes miracles, doesn't it?
Kevin James
>"leftists" There are no leftists in this world anymore, just liberal fags payed by capitalists to do marxist stuff to destroy culture and nationality so corporations become more powerful.
Eli Myers
>losing sovereignty is not bad in itself
Yes, yes it is.
Jonathan Rodriguez
cause they needed a place to hide all the money and shady transactions