I’m the oldest of 5. I care about my siblings. I’ve helped a couple of them a bit when they’ve needed it.

But I can’t ever imagine tying my finances, my housing, the rules of their houses - to mine. I can’t imagine someone - that none of the 5 of us really chose - being the arbiter of an arrangement like this.

Why would one ever get into a “partnership” like that?

Why in the hell did the EU ever exist in the first place? What am I missing?