The main example is a bureaucracy that is trying by every means conceivable to get more and more power over national governments. Every crisis in the Eurozone i

The main example is a bureaucracy that is trying by every means conceivable to get more and more power over national governments. Every crisis in the Eurozone is exploited so that the EU has more and more to say about how governments need to behave and which rules they need to follow. And of course, the EU controls the currency, which makes it easier to deal with smaller governments.