> the EU is organized in such a way that it is at an intermediate stage between it being just a bunch of different nations and it being something similar to the

> the EU is organized in such a way that it is at an intermediate stage between it being just a bunch of different nations and it being something similar to the USA There's certainly an argument for that, but I would instead argue that the US states would benefit from being independent countries (this is not as compelling as dissolving the EU, though; we're not at that point yet). The primary motivator is diseconomies of scale -- these huge organizations become extremely inefficient, and often corrupt (look at India and China).