The core problem with the EU is that the EU was never a nation. We saw this with Grexit 10 years ago. There was a common currency with no common fiscal policy.

The core problem with the EU is that the EU was never a nation. We saw this with Grexit 10 years ago. There was a common currency with no common fiscal policy. A military is yet another thing that the EU does not have because the EU is not a nation. Making the EU a nation (the way the US is) seems to be a project of very few people in Europe. They like their nations the way they are.