Clearly Europe has been highly intermingled throughout its history and shares some common roots but that is not what we're talking about here. We're not talkin

Clearly Europe has been highly intermingled throughout its history and shares some common roots but that is not what we're talking about here. We're not talking about alliances (which happen all the time without political union) or trade areas (which the EU originally was) we're talking about supra-national centralised bureaucracy. Change is inevitable and it's healthy to have multiple self governed states doing things differently from each other and co-operating from time to time.