Czech Republic president, Vaclav Klaus commenting on the EU as quoted in the Washington Times:
The biggest challenge for the Czech Republic, Mr. Klaus said, is to avoid falling into the trap of “a new form of collectivism.”…”The enemies of free societies today are those who want to burden us down again with layer upon layer of regulations,” Mr. Klaus said. “We had that in communist times. But now if you look at all the new rules and regulations of EU membership, layered bureaucracy is staging a comeback.”
The principle of a larger nation state or one Europe only makes sense, if the unifying principle is the protection of individual rights, i.e., the political system of capitalism, i.e., more freedom.