[vrganj]

The EU was never just an economic union of markets. Hell, the Schuman declaration from 1950, the closest thing it has to a founding document, calls for an ever closer union.

[coldtea]

That how it was sold, whatever Schuman had in mind, and increasingly encroached scope that Europeans voted again and again against.

The original actual scope was even more limited than a unified market: coal and steel control.