>Do you live in a EU country? I do. >EU rules are generally good things: rule of law, sane deficit and debt rules etc Those are all very obscure "rules" And

>Do you live in a EU country? I do. >EU rules are generally good things: rule of law, sane deficit and debt rules etc Those are all very obscure "rules" And we had such rules even without the EU. > And in practice states have a lot of sway. How do states not do what Ursula v.d. Leyen says? What is their say in the matter? Or more importantly, what's their citizens' say in the matter? Since citizens did not elect her to be their representative. >post-Brexit the quality of government has decreased, That's because their government is incompetent, not because they left the EU.