In reality the EU has proven to be a net-negative for Europe because it has been easy to subvert by deviant agents (like the Jews) and rival powers (like the Americans) who want to use it as a vessel to subjugate the nations of Europe and prevent them from prospering and becoming great again.
Europe's security needs to be guaranteed and its liberty needs to be secured, but it needs to be done the old reliable way: with a continent-spanning empire. It worked for the Romans, it worked for the Habsburgs, and it would have worked for Napoleon if the British hadn't been determined to undermine him at every turn.
Now, it is clear that a pan-European empire would have to be either French or German in nature, or perhaps Austrian but Austria isn't what it once was. I nominate the French, the Germans have been buckbroken too hard by the Americans and the Soviets in the aftermath of World War 2.
