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No, that’s the worst conclusion to draw. The EU is the only hope we have if we don’t want to become a toy for the US and China.

We need to save the EU from these people!

They already see us as a toy. Even Russia can't take EU serious.

We could have economic and military cooperation without this circus.

It's not even actually democratic and veto powers of tiny countries like hungary have turned common foreign policy into a joke.

Wasn't Ireland threatened with not being allowed in (a hypothetical) EU 2.0 at some point, unless they backed down on some issue.

there's no 'saving' the EU imo. I would consider voting to exit if given the opportunity

To what end though? What is your country’s opinion worth globally without the EU? It’s not that I like the current state of affairs, but the alternative is so much worse.

If not being in the EU is so awful, you should tell the Swiss about it. They must have missed it. /s

On a serious note, I think EU was a good idea but it has decayed a lot, especially after how the Greek crisis was handled and because of multiple legal design flaws. It needs a big restructuring, otherwise it will continue to decline and be used as a dumping ground for unpopular laws like Chat Control.

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