Vladimir's right. For something like Europe to work you NEED bureaucracy. It's fairly inescapable. The only way around that would be to bring down the nation states and set up a single government. Few people want that - though I'm personally on the fence. Sceptics also often rattle on about a lack of democracy. Problem there is they're treating it as a single country, which it isn't.

I'm not sure how I feel about a greater, paneuropean army, frankly. I can see the benefits, but it could only ever be a defence force. Plus the aforementioned bureaucracy would problably be present there, too. And where as that's fine for a transnational organisation, in a military I can only imagine it would be a bleedin' hinderance.