The alternative IS even worse - 1914-1918 and 1939-1945.
http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedoc...0Community.pdf
CONSIDERING that world peace may be safeguarded only by creative efforts equal to the dangers
which menace it;
RESOLVED to substitute for historic rivalries a fusion of their essential interests; to establish, by
creating an economic community, the foundation of a broad and independent community among
peoples long divided by bloody conflicts; and to lay the bases of institutions capable of giving
direction to their future common destiny;
- Treaty constituting the European Coal and Steel Community (1951).
http://europa.eu/about-eu/eu-history...9/index_en.htm
The European Union is set up with the aim of ending the frequent and bloody wars between neighbours, which culminated in the Second World War. As of 1950, the European Coal and Steel Community begins to unite European countries economically and politically in order to secure lasting peace.
- The history of the European Union: 1945 - 1959, from the "About the EU" page.
I'd rather useless EU officers talking, drinking coffee and doing 25 minutes of work as slowly as possible, than those same people working in nativist offices apart from each other, working out how to kill their neighbours as efficiently as possible.
The European Union is incompetent and impotent and
deliberately so. The EU was designed as a make work exercise for precisely the same reason that the United States decided to send twelve clowns to the moon.