Putin said Friday: "The EU has completely lost its political sovereignty.”
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It wasn't designed to be an overbearing authocratic body that undermined it's nations sovereignity at every chance.
... are you sure about that?
I'm fairly sure some of the leading lights in the creation of the EU, although they were careful to keep it out of policy documents, advocated for precisely that.
of course not.
I honestly don't think they were intelligent enough to envision something like this.
They certainly have not phrased it the way you did, but "ever closer union" - a nice turn of phrase - only happens by EU countries progressively surrendering their own sovereignty to the EU.