I see this argument about the bureaucratic Europe being presented a lot. Please consider EU is not a de-facto federation, nor many of its founding members want

I see this argument about the bureaucratic Europe being presented a lot. Please consider EU is not a de-facto federation, nor many of its founding members wants that. So I am curious: How would you envision the daily activity of an EU that should satisfy at least the following points: - Countries does not want to delegate their full decision power to EU - Each country wants to keep as much as possible their specific laws, habits, quircks while also wanting _easy_ access to the other country market, lands, citizens - No country wants to be treated less equal then the others - Still all countries wants to be together for a greater good (or maybe for the fear of what would happen if they will be alone - see UK now) Thus I don't see any other way than having a big organisation that handles every small details, that handles with care each national pride and find the best way forward. It might not seem that way but European countries still have in their collective memories both their own national pride, old disputes with neighbours and the memories of some extraordinary damaging wars. And the reason it might not seem that European countries are still individual entities is EU. It managed to find the best path that is does not generate conflict.