Same for me and in my experience and technically speaking EU is a regime.
About this:
> And I agree with the EU as a concept, an ideal.
The EU is not an ideal though, the ideal is cooperation between European countries, I guess.
You have rightly criticized capitalism. But if you are really interested in changing things, you realize that to implement welfare state policies you need to change the monetary policy of the ECB.
This is not technically possible with the European elections. It must be done with national governments and they must all agree. Countries like Germany that profit from the current situation at the expense of other countries must also agree.
What I'm telling you is that the EU is technically defending capitalism. And the situation can be unblocked only in two ways: with the unanimity of the nations or by remaking the EU from scratch.
The question I am asking you is not ideological, it is technical. My point is that the EU is fostering competition between nations, allowing the stronger to exploit the weaker and preventing nations from pursuing the welfare state with policies such as #JobGuarantee, #FreeHealthcare and #FreeEducation. The EU is exactly the opposite of the ideal of cooperation between nations that you profess.
Please don't respond with inconsistent rhetoric. Read about what I have mentioned and think about it.
