For the EU to work, the countries need to function more as states. Maybe this is just the hard road for the EU to get to something resembling the states, or it will fall apart as a failed experiment.
> ...the EU to get to something resembling the states,
as:
EU member nations need to have their sovereignty diminished. That's extremely hard to swallow if you're the one losing rights/protections to a foreign institution.
It's hard to swallow if you don't trust the foreign institution you're losing your rights to.
And that's a problem for the EU, because many people don't feel like it does a very good job of listening to people (or even countries). Instead, they feel that it does what it wants, and runs over people who don't like the EU's self-decided plan.
That would be a problem for the US, too (see the approval ratings of either Congress or the president), but we're not having to hand over much new power to either one at the moment, so inertia is working for the US. It's working against the EU.
I agree, and that's the problem with the EU. It is what led to Brexit and may lead to eventual Grexit, then Italy and Spain leaving. The Nordic countries never fully joined for similar reasons.
I wonder if the free movement of people is an unworkable concept without also consistent laws.
