The EU was never meant to be a super-state it was meant to be a trading block of independent nation states.

The problem is the project was hijacked by a bunch of ideologues who had imperial pretensions. It is they that have destroyed the project and left the EU in jeopardy.

Excellent question, Indeed we should!

I agree - it is a very important question. Also I am sure that EU in its present form - as a multi-state conglomerate which includes countries with very different economic basis could not succeed

Thanks for the interesting ideas. I think that EU can succeed in a smaller and more solid form and scale. Still, there are big challenges that might change the trend.

Yes I agree! Its role in the international arena seems to be to make its presence known rather than felt, and it surely is not, and will not be, a leader of trends for now and for the foreseeable future.

I think that the best way to preserve its role is to stay as a loose alliance of sovereign states. The centralization trend evident in the last two decades, will break it up much faster than Brussels bureaucrats think.

https://blogs.elconfidencial.com/mundo/mondo-cane/2018-12-21/polonia-racismo-espanoles-ultraderecha-ue_1720818/?utm_source=marfeelpush&fbclid=IwAR3ZnPs2UIPtdTeYB3bLg2viKIxaLxDh0E0-DFBvSvnYTg4-RxGe2VZQ3mk

An interesting article on the increase of Euro-skepticism in Poland

It depends on what you mean by succeed. Economic success? Political success in worlld terms? Avoiding another war between European States? Allowing free movement to support economic growth? Preventing dictatorships? Controlling immigration from outside the EU? Cooperating together to meet global warming threats? Showing other states that close cooperation can lead to a better life for citizens? ...

The question is if EU as a multi-state entity will fail or succeed as a dynamic model. I think there are two main challenges to the success of the actual EU model. First. A more centralized EU might lead to inefficient institutions and to more room for abuse with taxpayers money. Second. The growth of euro-skepticism might lead to the failure of the present model and even to conflicts within the EU space.

When the problem gets too big, it's too big to fail. For example the EU's migration laws. When European migration crisis started, the EU told Southern European countries that "it's up to you guys". But it's also too big to succeed as the Brexit deal failed.

Abdullah Sencer Gözübenli as you rightly point it out, the problem is that an entity that expands too much becomes unmanageable.

Yes. It is obvious that the EU bureaucrats are masters in mismanagement. Clifford as you have seen in another discussion very few believe in the EU success. Everybody thinks along national lines.

The EU was never meant to be a super-state it was meant to be a trading block of independent nation states.

The problem is the project was hijacked by a bunch of ideologues who had imperial pretensions. It is they that have destroyed the project and left the EU in jeopardy.