Corrupt and Wasteful

That's what the EU is corrupt and wasteful. Every week seems to bring new stories of corruption and waste. I've never understood why Europeans are so enamoured with having a centralized governing body like the EU. How much history do they need to understand that such bodies have very little accountability and that the citizens of each country will have little to no voice in the governing body. Why would any citizen want to give up control of their country to a centralized governing body? How many shades of wrong is that? Give me one example where layers of entrenched bureacracy is a good thing. Give me one example in which the farther away the common person is from their elected officials the better it has turned out for the common person. They're nothing but a bunch of pantywaste bureaucrats! Bureaucrats don't care about efficiency or creative problem solving; they care only about creating work for themselves to ensure they keep their cushy jobs and enormous expense accounts. They started the banana brouhaha when they attempted to regulate what the proper shape of a banana should be. They're being given power to meddle in details that shouldn't concern them. A recipe for large scale disaster is brewing in Europe.