The elephant in the room can not be that big since it could enter through the door. The EU project is nothing like US. This is the XIX, with all the economical

The elephant in the room can not be that big since it could enter through the door. The EU project is nothing like US. This is the XIX, with all the economical and political complications. And we're talking about a bunch of very different countries and cultures. You don't just throw them together in a bowl and stir. USofE is a solution to a problem created by a solution that was not needed in the first place. It was an ideal. It still is. The ideal of a few that got to be shared by more and more people. But not by everyone, not with any cost.