The concept of the EU and Europe has become so tightly conflated that there are genuinely people out there who are confused about the difference. This is what brit eurosceptics warned about in the early 00s.
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@anjum The conflation is the same all over Europe and cynically exploited for political capital.
In the Netherlands, our centrist and left-wing parties are careful to hide their supranational policies behind the guise of pro-European, because, well, we **are** in Europe after all, so how could any sane voter not be pro-European?
In reality, of course, many people across Europe won't vote for any pro-EU party, precisely because the voters themselves **are** pro-European.
