Unlike her founders, the current EU executives hold no idealism, unless you count servitude corporatism (neo-liberalism) as an ideal. Just look at baroness Ursula von der Leyen's more than shadowy deal with Pfizer. History is still to have its field day uncovering the truth behind it.

As a teacher, I witnessed first-hand the destruction of university education by EU neo-liberalism enforcing the "harmonisation of the educational market", the Bologna agreement. I refused to be complicit in it and left. All Europeans have learned to hate what the EU has become and her enslavement to the trans-Atlantic PNAC agenda of which NATO is its embodiment.

And as for questioning authority, the Western public is only now slowly realising that its governments have set up agencies whose sole task is to apply state-of-the-art science of cognitive warfare on them. To manipulate the public response. The damning Twitter files are only the tip of that iceberg. Huge crowd-funded parallel news channels are popping up all over Europe. Germany, France, Belgium, etc. 11th of March the Dutch resistance will hold a massive demonstration against the neo-liberal government. We are fed up with their gross mismanagement and dismantling of our civil societies.