[AnimalMuppet]

> More than 70 years at peace on a continent, something not seen for several centuries before that. The EU project, and structure, and growth, and maturity, is central to that peace.

I don't really buy that. There were a number of years of peace before the EU even existed; crediting the EU with the peace therefore seems a bit revisionist.

[Juliate]

EU is a thing, and is a dynamics too. What we have today is the consequence of what's been put into action right after WW2.