I liked your post very much, Walkabout and the falacy of the EU was born precisely from where you said, from the utopia of being viable to put 28 countries together, twenty eight different histories, different interests, different geopolitical influences, different all. It never was and there were already several warnings on that respect. The war on Iraq was perhaps the most notorious but there were several others thru times and right now the refugee thing is the most important but there are several others in the shadows but nevertheless present. The Russian sanctions, for instance.

All in all I'm in agreement with what you wrote. Let me put a small note on something you wrote at the end of your post.


Since the beginning I've always had the implosion of the European Union as a matter of when, not an "if" thing. For a long time I hoped that from the rubble it would be possible to recreate the EEC which, indeed, was a good thing. Nowadays, although I am still hopeful, rationally I don't see it happening. It's a sort of wishful thinking, let's call it that. With time countries and societies developed resentment against each other due to perceived injustices. In certain country pairs this grew way too big to allow any sort of Union in the near future. Even a mere commercial union. And that I regret.