Don‘ t get me wrong, I also see the urgency for Europe to emancipate as a unity of a 500 million people market in order to become a respected contender to the global (counter)players in economical, political and maybe also military aspect.
But there is a lack of transparency in EU‘s political power structure. It would be a progress in credibility if commissioner presidents are inaugurated more directly by the vote of the parliament.
Individual freedom of citizens on microscopic level and cultural autonomy on the macroscopic level for member nations should not be neglected. Overregulation, Deep Data Collection, senseless impersonal regulations that create nonsense in every day’s life are weakening Europe‘s creativity, productivity and entrepreneurship. An innovative Europe with liberal economic laws, personal freedom and privacy, granting more autonomy for countries to imply central legislation locally according to their wished extent could make Europe a strong and serious contender for all three global superpowers. A European carbon and morality policy is an expensive artificial construct of restrictive regulations not creating value at all, all they create are costs for the little man with the redistribution of his property to a central entity. Fun fact is… it is unproductive, expensive, weakening and the worst… there is a real danger getting an oppressive data collection leviathan using digital Euro to control people’s property and behavior.