How many times in the last few years have you (or any of Europe’s less-than-core leaders) said to yourselves- “EU, what’s the point?” All this ceding of sovereignty, centralization of power, relinquishment of decision-making; and for what? The answer – of course – free-er trade, a customs union enabling cross-border trade to flourish and in the great economics textbooks of the world for each member state to do what they do best (German VWs and Greek yogurt?) and maximally profit from that. That all sounds wunderbar in practice…