This was a reply to something else, but I'm posting it as a standalone note.
I've become extremely wary of this whole anti-EU propaganda push that wants to sell us that the alternative to a EuroReich is 27 "strong sovereign nations". We also tried that. And it stinks like Russian fascist agit-prop by the way.
It's a false dichotomy: the problem with the EU isn't that the eurobureaucracy is unelected. It's not, really. It's a "representative democracy" exactly like the "national" ones. The real problem with it is its massive overreach. It is a State vs Individual problem, exactly as with the state bureaucracies. London, Berlin, Madrid, Rome, Paris, Warsaw... have the same lack of legitimacy to make decisions for me as Brussels and Strasbourg.
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