Hypocrisy
I believe the EU is a good thing, I really do, but I keep seeing things such as the following: a 2001 paper on the Eastern enlargement of the EU says, “In this perspective, it might become desirable to orient labour markets and social policy institutions in such a way as to promote, rather than oppose, internal labour mobility in the EU.” That’s nice. Except the free movement of people has been a fundamental freedom of the Single Market for years! I’m not blaming the authors, for the simple fact they’re right, EU member states have been opposing the free movement of workers and it would be a good idea to change their practices to be in line with their rhetoric.