The European Project, as it is known, has been treated as an almost sacred process by the continent's elite. Nothing — certainly neither fiscal responsibility nor popular sovereignty — should be allowed to stand in the way of creating a united Europe like the dominating American republic across the pond.
No doubt European cooperation has had beneficial effects. However, the negatives have become ever more evident.
Brussels has aped Washington by hosting a growing bureaucracy dedicated to micromanagement and social engineering. An Eurocratic elite, made up of the usual gaggle of politicians, academics, journalists, businessmen, bureaucrats and related folk, is determined to create a continental consolidated government irrespective of the desires of European peoples.