> The EU is a terribly inefficient and hopeless organization Compared to what? Efficiency always scaled poorly with size. For what it's worth, bureaucracies of

> The EU is a terribly inefficient and hopeless organization Compared to what? Efficiency always scaled poorly with size. For what it's worth, bureaucracies of US Federal government, not to mention those of China, India, Russia etc. are far worse, it seems. It's not about the EU's throughput of things, but things it enables. Things like efficient allocation of resources via a single economic area, for example.