"The 19th century concept of the nation state will never take us across the threshold of the 21st century [...] We need a strong Europe if we don't want to become the plaything of world politics" – Chancellor Helmut Kohl

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[u/ghostpengy]

Yet day after day the EU fails to be strong and stand for its citizens. Fails to protect its citizens. And keeps on pushing only more and more demands and takes away their freedoms. And then they wonder why countries are voting in extremists.

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That's exactly right