Your statement:

"But all you end up getting is less control over your own life as more control is given to further distant, remote and detached control structures that care even less about you than your national government does in most cases."

This sums up why the EU will likely and ultimately fail. What does someone who lives in Stockholm understand about the way of life on someone in Lisbon? The very idea that the technocrat, globalists in Brussels "know best" how someone should live and take away their rights to decide for themselves is flawed at best. Nice work krnel! Please keep it coming.