As a libertarian, I think European Union is a huge danger for our society and truly a cancerous project. It’s literally a government built on the top of our government. So you get two governments put together and it creates a big combo of double socialism.

And it looks like I am not alone, because even Mises in his books was against the idea of the european superstate.

But it is really against libertarianism? Because some ideas of EU seem to be compatible with it. Well… No. Let’s explain why.

One of the most libertarian things is open borders. It’s a great thing, A company in France and a company in German want to trade, but there are obstacles, like regulations and tariffs and all these things that make it difficult. And for the end-customer it’s expensive.

And guess what, it doesn’t need to be. All these obstacles are created by German and French governments. They can simply abolish all of them and let the market be free.

And then there is the Europen union who says: “No obstacles! Let the trade be free.” and now companies in France can trade with companies in Germany without any difficulties, which seems to be really a good thing from libertarian perspective. And indeed, it is.

But here is a problem. First, I don’t think it’s a good thing to beat some bureaucracy with more bureaucracy, even though the new bureaucracy can limit the old, we should better get rid of both of them.

Also even if you look at the situation like “Okay, you have double bureaucracy, however if the result is that France and Germany could trade without any limits, it’s good, huh?”, but it also means you have to have a big f*cking institution above you, sh*ting tons of regulations on your head. And it’s like removing an old piece of furniture by setting fire to a house. It helps, but it extremely ineffective.

And the market regulations created by the EU are not just a tiny little thing. They are pretty crazy and do a lot of harm to the market in general.

Also also maybe it makes easier for companies in France and Spain and Germany to trade by removing the state-nationalism, but it also creates a new european nationalism and maybe it’s easy to trade inside of EU, but outside of it it’s the same level of torture.

EU supporters sometimes tell me the EU is great, because it protects us from our crazy government and if – for example – some extremist wins an election, he still can’t do much harm, because the EU doesn’t let him.

This is when I agree with statists – we both think our local governmet can be really dangerous and insane. But I don’t think the EU works as some sort of “guardian”. And even if so, who will protect us from the crazy decisions of the EU? Some global government? And who will check on the global government? The Guardians of the Galaxy?

The problem with the EU is simple. It’s nothing, but more socialism. Just different colors, different flags, different symbols, but it’s still the same. The same crazy idea of taming the wild capitalism with central plans. But as usual, it doesn’t work, because capitalism is like a dragon – it cannot be tamed and if you try to, you just make it retarded.

Of course, capitalism is not perfect, but it doesn’t mean we need an army of bureaucrats who have almost unlimited power over the whole of Europe.