The EU peace and prosperity project has changed diametrically over the years. The visionary leaders of the first hour have been replaced and the project hijacked by a boneless cast of neo-liberal AngloSaxon enablers in Brussels who serve corporate interests to the detriment of the EU citizens. It's high time to kick them out of the temple.
and ps..the origin of the vision of a European collaboration "from the Atlantic to the Urals" was not Russian but French. General de Gaulle's in '58. Later another visionary, Gorbachev reverberated it as "from Lisbon to Vladivostok".
Europe's future lies in Europe.