Most people in the smaller EU countries are very keenly aware that without the power of the group to face the World’s large countries they would be nothing more than footballs for the big powers, same as before the EU.
It’s not by chance that the only country to ever leave was big-sized (in Europe terms, but mid-sized in World terms) one with nationalistic delusions of grandeur leftover from the time when they headed an Empire.
Most people in the smaller EU countries are very keenly aware that without the power of the group to face the World’s large countries they would be nothing more than footballs for the big powers, same as before the EU.
It’s not by chance that the only country to ever leave was big-sized (in Europe terms, but mid-sized in World terms) one with nationalistic delusions of grandeur leftover from the time when they headed an Empire.