Munich security conference

[Beskar]

But with this we run into the same problems, in which we run with all major issues with EU. Is there a popular will for such? Are the European governments ready to give up their local monopoly of violence and most importantly: Does EU have proper democratic institutions for it to be allowed to wield such power? What checks and balances are there in place to secure the inhabitants of EU from misuse of such power?

This is where it falls down. Do the national elites want it? Do the people want it? Does the EU want it?

The EU is very much in the hands of the various heads of state. Whilst people argue about the mystical European elite, it is actually the major individual powers which do all the decision making behind closed doors then they make the EU follow-suite. It is these group of people which compromise the democratic-deficit of the Union too, as making the Union represent the mandate of the people gives the Union more power to act in its own interest opposed to the interest of the heads of state. Interestingly, the arrangement also works so that the EU gets all the flank for following the National interests of the members.