I say fuck EU and let countries develop at their own pace in their particular set of circumstances, with their specific environment, history, mozaic of cultures, different trials and their own unique strengths and weakness.

The broken education system that we are using, is the prussian one, created after a big territorial expansion of the empire, based on harvesting the human resources and cutting down dissent by building a shared (hi)story in the collective memory and shaping people as specialized tools. The same standardization is acting as a political instrument now. EU is just a new form of colonial power.

https://eco.sapo.pt/2024/02/21/lisboa-esta-aprisionada-na-armadilha-do-desenvolvimento/