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So far so good I guess? The Euro/single market has made trade and daily lives so much easier and grasped fiscal control out of individual states' incompetent ha
by moffkalast 3y ago
So far so good I guess? The Euro/single market has made trade and daily lives so much easier and grasped fiscal control out of individual states' incompetent hands, Schengen makes travel a breeze. EU funding continues to equalize development throughout so that we can function more fairly as a continent (in economic terms). Erasmus programmes letting people study across the EU are great, the food safety regulations and support for farmers are pretty good and GDPR has been fantastic so far.
The current Commission does impotently scream its fascist views, but luckily they can't do shit without the Parliament's approval, which unfortunately for them happens to be an actual democratic entity. As long as the checks and balances continue to work we'll be fine.
Obviously there hasn't been anything done in terms of a centralized military, but we'll get there eventually and NATO is a decent stand-in for now. And the train network is also still quite a train wreck when it comes to international connections which I'm also hopeful will be eventually addressed. But it won't ever be without a federal authority demanding it, because each country fundamentally only cares about itself.
And of course the EU's greatest achievement, forcing Logitech to finally drop microUSB lmao.