I actually had a fairly intense "European Studies" class during my masters degree and it was quite eye-opening to me at the personal level.

The articles and texts the professors gave us very explicitly said that the EU has been leveraged by state-level politicians from the very beginning to bypass democratic controls and implement policies that they'd never be able to implement otherwise.

As I said, they are explicit about it, as in boasting about how clever they are in finding a smart way to implement their benevolent tyrant ideas, for the people, without the people.

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I've heard about it for a looong time and either didn't care at the time or dismiss the critics of EU as alarmist. At that time I was building my biz and it was all I could think about. Not that there was anything I could do to change the direction that EU took (other than becoming career politician - maybe - but again, not my schtik).