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Unfortunately not. Not even close. EU is a political union -- it subsumed the European Economic Community and (partially) the Schengen Agreement and gradually added a lot of political centralization on top.

Scary how people equate those, without understanding the (monstrous) difference.

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If the EU is a political union, how come we don't have pan-European parties and elections yet? And a centralized budget? And common taxes? And common defense? I'm sorry but it is not even close to being a political union, unlike the USA for example.

I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic (it's hard to tell on the internet), but just in case:

All the things you list have either been already implemented in the EU, or their implementation is being actively discussed.

The gradual loss of sovereignty (the so-called "salami method") is also what prompted many people to vote for Brexit. Not everyone was a knuckle-dragging racist.

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