It started in 1950 as the European Steel and Coal Community, founded by France and West Germany, with the following intentions:
“The Monnet Plan emphasized expansion, modernization, efficiency, and modern management practice. Its process – focusing, prioritizing, and pointing the way – has been called “indicative planning” to differentiate it from highly directive and rigid Soviet-style planning.” (wiki)
And now, 76 years later, it has developed from a purely economic zone for two industries and two countries, specifically set up to prevent war, to 27 countries who are trying to start one. Now committed to destroying the steel and coal industries and building social and political constructs by an unelected bureaucracy. Contrast with Russia, which had 15 Soviet states, plus the six satellites behind the Iron curtain and the six states comprising Yugoslavia which was also 27 states, which lasted 72 years …..