Hmm. I'd have thought that latent mutual loathing would be regarded as a damn good reason for HAVING an EU. All that common economic and political interest is a sure-fire way of ensuring that hostilities would never again break out, no? It appears to have worked for the last seventy years, not a bad stretch looking at the history. It means that neither my son nor I have ever had to take up arms and for that alone I'm grateful for the EU. And you can't prove me wrong, can you!