The EU power center in Brussels (or is it really in Germany?) has an endless greed for power over its states, and for money along with it.
What one sees is similar to what happened with American states eventually in their relations with a once-weak central government. Will the nations rebel?
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There is a line in Baja Oklahoma where a character says something like "America is at peace for a change, and now the only enemy we have is Washington DC." Hilarious book, by the way, and it holds up well.