The Occidental Observer - Tom Sunic: The Rise and Demise of the EU: A Short History of A Big Failure - "The underlying belief, inherent to liberalism, was that only thorough economic benefits — only through the removal of trade barriers and state borders, and with the free flux of people, goods and capital — would age-old interethnic hatreds among Europeans disappear. The results of such delusions are becoming visible every day."

The Rise and Demise of the EU: A Short History of A Big Failure

Several costly mistakes were made by the founding fathers of the European Union:

• economics, and not politics, was thought to be the best tool to bring about the unification of Europe;
• unclear plans about the limits of the enlargement of the European Union;
• the unexpected and ongoing floods of non-European immigration as a result of the iron law of capitalism, combined with starry-eyed, guilt-feeling Christian inspired “love thy colored neighbor” ecumenism.

The first signs of the decline did not wait to occur.  The Amsterdam Treaty of 1997, the Nice Treaty of 2001, and the Lisbon Treaty of 2007 became face-saving attempts at rectifying the failures already embedded in the founding myth of the Maastricht Treaty of 1992. ...

http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2014/08/the-rise-and-demise-of-the-eu-a-short-history-of-a-big-failure/#more-24390