Whoops, should have looked in here earlier. I think I'm going to have to do a rant about the EU before long. Synopsis: the EU is Free Trade done right. It's also essential that we have at least two superpowers, to keep each other on their toes and prove that there is an alternative. (And I'd much rather they were both democracies of some sort than totalitarian police states or bureaucracies.)

What's wrong with the EU? Lots, starting with the "democratic deficit". But there's a hell of a lot that's right, enough to suggest that fixing it is a worthwhile option.