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That's pretty much it. We Europeans like to whine about the EU, and there's a lot of things that need to be improved, but very few of us would be ready to go ba
by fogihujy 5y ago
That's pretty much it. We Europeans like to whine about the EU, and there's a lot of things that need to be improved, but very few of us would be ready to go back to what it was like before.
- ekianjo 5y ago> but very few of us would be ready to go back to what it was like before. Laziness or faulty memory?
- fogihujy 5y agoFor starters, there's a lot of people who simply weren't born when their countries joined, and they simply don't know what it was like when you had to pay customs fees to bring stuff across that which is now internal EU borders, when you had to show a passport to cross European borders and so on. As someone else posted, this is one of those "What have the Romans ever done for us" things.
- wasmitnetzen 5y agoDo you really want border controls, roaming charges, local currencies back? Sure, there are things the EU does terribly bad, but overall, I think it's a net positive. I'm born in 1990, so I don't remember the time before the EU, but I've lived in five different EU/EEA countries with very limited bureaucracy. I can't imagine how difficult that would have been before.
- pjc50 5y agoI was born in the 70s. I remember the Iron Curtain and the disintegration of Yugoslavia. That is what the EU and predecessors were mindful of and aim never to go back to.