The continent-wide institutions are often comically bureaucratic, wasteful and democratically dubious, but they proved their worth in the post-2008 years by holding safety nets aloft, by keeping governments at the same table – and, importantly, by allowing citizens of wrecked economies to use their continent-wide citizenship rights and migrate freely to better ones (a million Spaniards, Italians and Greeks moved to Germany last year to fill its gaping labour shortages).
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