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Europe is trying too hard to compete against the US
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I have heard that opinion before and I think it a bit skewed, I don't think many feel the purpose of the EU is to compete against the US*
but instead it comes from two realisations
1) The realisation that the two european civil wars of the 20C were disasterous and pointless and must never be repeated
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2) the best way to avoid such wars is to bind europe together in connections of intercommerce and mutual cooperation.
The problem is that some (the worst culprit here has been the UK) just want the ecomomic benifits such a free market brings without seeing that a common market, open borders, freedom of movement and employment require some level of european control and instead of entrusting that control to democratically elected pols, they leave it to horrible convoluted compromises hammered out between heads of state and then enforced by an ever growing army of eurocrats.
If EU law was code, you wouldn't be able to complie it
*ok maybe some of the French do
