The referendums held in 2005 showed that the citizen is Eurosceptic, and voices his opposition at the first opportunity he/she has. A political union is a bad idea anyway, it's like having a 27 parties coalition government. Totally unmanageable. We see that on a daily basis, it lacks the speed and smoothness to deal with real issues in a sensible and effective manner. In my opinion, the EU should have regulations for justice, economics and a common frame for education. The rest should be national governments affairs. All we need at the end is a common currency, a basis for dealing with crime across the member states and a recognition of diplomas and professional standard requirements across the whole EU perimeter. Anything else is meddling into local or national issues and is not worth the taxpayer's money.
So you believe in referendums, and people choice, that is good,
Yes I agree with you that Europe must have a Charta an agenda on which countries must be stick, a kind of Justice simmilar etc,
now about 1 currency, as you seen, it is difficult today the 1 currency cause some want or need 1 E = 1 $ and some want 1 E = 1 $ as their local economy stands, so that is difficult, so you a drop of E about 15% could save Greece, but a 15% drop of E could be disaster for others,
Simply Europes failure if it is done could be due to non time of isolation,
when EKAX (in Greek) the Union of Coal and Steel by 6 in early 50's it was to create a common policy about 2-3 products,
where are we now? to blame each other for everything,
the only free capitals that move are expensive football players, Europe did not manage to create a system to absorve workers, but instead manage to make Europeans the Non Europeans,
an example is the today situation, countries that have low unemployment do not make announce to accept workers from EU, but mostly accept non EU immigrants to assimilate them with the idea of Europe.
it is another Europe the Europe before 2000 and another the EU after 2000.
maybe we should reconsider the case?
IN USA when it was born passed 100 years of isolation to create the feeling of USA nation, is the feeling of EU citizen so much strong among us the today Eu citizens?
to expand more, How many non EU work today in EU and how many EU are unemployed???
so solidarity of EU in working policy exist???
the europe that we build after 2000 must be reconsidered, and rebuild,
many countries think of EU as a cow where they can milk, many people also,