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Its not a great 'thing'.I dont' think so.
Maybe EU is managed by idiots but it is a great thing.
UK would like to restore its Empire with NZ and Canada but there is just a little problem, it lies in front of France, good luck importing stuff from NZ ...
Before pandemic I used to visit ad spend my money in UK pretty often, now I need a passport and I am too lazy to apply for it. 😁
So I will spend my money in Italy.
Switzerland has never been in EU but does not require passport for tourism...
It was a great 'idea' with open borders free trade and ultimately one big block of people living in harmony handing out hugs and coca cola. But it metamorphasised into a grotesque Hydra with many heads all trying to bite each other. Each country only sticking to the rules that suited them. Migrants being allowed against the rules to move unhindered across several countries until they reached their preferred destination.
There was no one cohesive persona that we all shared and we Brits still view the French with the same scepticism that we did at Agincourt.
It would have taken a civil war and hundreds of years to get everyone to pull together as one like they did in the US.