lol...are you aware of the member countries of the EU? many of them have no industrial base AT ALL, and depend a lot on tourism...being a member of the EU makes travel across Europe much easier. without the EU it would be up to individual country's to come up with regulations-do you understand what a clusterf*ck that would be....Europe is not like the u.s, the only member country of the EU that is bigger than the state of texas is france. with all of those small countries so close together it seems beneficial to have a co-operative agreement among them.