It's an interesting subject. One thing was the EEC. This, I believe, was a good thing and indeed brought benefits for its members. But now we have this behemoth called European Union, an utopia which tries to make Brits, Portuguese, Bulgarians, Greeks, Finns and everybody in between equal, pretends that everybody forgets its national histories and interests and dreams about a common good defended by all. It has always been an utopia.

Let's go back 25 years and remember how did the EU start. It didn't start due to any relevant needs for a closer union between the EEC countries nor for economic reasons. European Union is the son of political fear. The fear that an united Germany could wage war on its beighbours once more. Out of that came the idea (most particularly from the British, French and Italians) that with very strong, intertwined relations between all countries, Germany would be harmless for it would stand to loose as much as the others. And from this fear started the monstruous and aborrent construction of the European Union. It couldn't work and it was doomed since the beggining. Nowadays and for a couple years already I often ask if, in reality, the EU still exists. For its instutions behave more like a fallen empire trying to stick together its parts at all costs than as the original EU.

Going back 20 years, I repeatedly said that the EU would last until 2012-2015 and it would implode naturally with a bang. I may have been slightly wrong about the when... although I am not so sure if the EU still exists as said before. For a long time I hoped that from the rubble could remain at least the basis to recreate the EEC. Nowadays I'm not so sure that even that will be possible when someone finally issues the death certificate for this outrageous dreamy invention.

With the UK leaving the thing, it may start to desintegrate in an orderly fashion. Opposed to a chaotic one which will ensue if some other country decides to simply leave or, worst, merely starts ignoring the EU. Hungary and Poland seem on track for this second alternative.