The EU echoes the SU, sadly. Central government, central planning, central banks, mix people, no local culture, blur national and ethnic identities, flatten the social structures, and most importantly, destroy the family unit. Young couples can't buy a house and can't afford to raise kids. And young Europeans face high unemployment and low wages for life-consuming jobs with not much career prospects.

Remote work would've lessen that. But it seems they didn't like it so they quickly rolled it back after the pandemic.

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0xffany 4 days ago | parent [-]

This is just plain wrong or a terrible misinterpretation...

> central banks

What are you trying to say here? Each member state has a central bank. They are independent from, coordinated by, the ECB. Each central bank assumes the responsibility of regulating the member state's banks, with the ECB paying close attention to system-critical banks.

The US also has a central bank, singular, the Fed. What's your point?

> no local culture, blur national and ethnic identities

Have you been to Europe? Each country has it's own, completely distinct culture based on the nation's historic identity. Hint: you know when you're crossing borders (the language usually changes).

	▲	alecco 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Central bank: just see what they did with Greece, Italy, etc. Perennial debt in exchange of control. The central banks of the countries are completely at the mercy of Frankfurt. Yes, the US central bank is quite controversial itself, but the states don't depend on loans from the Fed. Or at least not directly, AFAIK. Of course Europe has culture and my point is they want to neuter it by moving a lot of people across countries, in particular the top of the graduate crop (as the original post pointed out). They blur the identities on purpose. Go to any major city in the bigger countries and you'll see they are losing the national identity very fast. Some are just unrecognizable. https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2025/05/28/christine-lag... Ruling from ECB with WEF directives.