The "EU" is different than "Europe". It has become a technocracy of the 1%

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11. The safety net in Europe is still stronger than anywhere else in the world. Are conservatives there

trying to weaken it. Of course. When do conservatives not do that? That is no reason for liberals to abandon the fight and the institution.

Furthermore the EU aren't liberal in the American sense ...

Taxes are higher and more progressive, unions are stronger, incomes are distributed much more fairly, the middle class is stronger than anywhere else in the world.

Yeah, it sounds like European liberals are real "neo liberals" and "libertarians".

Of course, there are undoubtedly many liberals who oppose some EU policies. However, the massive effort to weaken or eliminate the EU, as an institution, is indisputably coming from parties on the far right.

And that far right opposition is not the result of too much "libertarianism" or "neoliberalism" from the EU. The far right's opposition is because they view the EU as much too liberal for their tastes