If the EU was a Private company it would have been closed down years ago. The financial crisis exposed its huge weaknesses.
Blaming it on the Crash in 2008 is ignoring the real issue. Apart from Banking where are the major industries that can sustain the high levels of Government Spending that people demand? They're no longer in Europe and are still leaving at an alarming rate.
The promise of new jobs replacing the old ones that went never materialised. The promise of new jobs replacing the old tech ones as automation and computerisation progresses is also proving to be a lie.
GDP can't keep pace with Government spending.
Study what the UK Government spends money on to keep the increasing numbers of poor from literally starving or being homeless. There are far too many poor people relying on the rest for subsidies and the number of poor are growing by the day.
I highlighted the UK but they are just one country suffering from the disastrous laws the EU passes. I say disastrous but not if you're one of the rich. They are getting richer by the day.
The reasons are clear. Globalisation, Mass migration and automation. And what has the EU done to stem any of those? Look around you for items made in your country or in Europe. The number of times you see a low paid job done by a migrant or machine.
By 2050 at the present rate, the EU will be bankrupt or hopefully gone, so individual countries can run themselves to solve individual problems.