I have a had a lifetime experience from outside Eu and dealing with them.
Sorry, but I don't take such doomsday conspiracies too seriously.
You can be happy of the useless baggage you got rid off and with a little bit of good luck the EU can get rid of its own and become what it was intended to be in the beginning.
Honestly to me this exemplifies everything that is wrong with the EU to begin with, a bunch of Bureaucrats who think they are too big to fail.
Switzerland has so many agreements in place with the EU that it is as close to being an EU member as it is possible to get, while still being able to claim they are not... at the cost of massively increased bureaucracy.
I'm not understanding the point you are trying to make?
Switzerland has so many agreements in place with the EUYes
that it is as close to being an EU member as it is possible to getIf by being almost an EU Member you mean being bullied into accepting policies every X Years which more often than not violate promises made by the EU towards Switzerland so to get us to sign them in the first place, sure.
at the cost of massively increased bureaucracy. At least I know that my tax, unlike the average EU Citizen closely to 50% Income Tax + 17% something tax on products, does not go to some fat suit in Brussels to implement laws which fuck me over on a daily basis while sipping champagne and going to brothels.
BTW, Yes, I remember times before the EU, and Yes I also like some things of the EU - like Visa free travel and the such, but at some point the line has to be drawn on what amount of power you want to give to such an out of touch Institution. To me it has gone out of Hand since the Euro, what a mess that did to Southern Europe.
I think the only people in a bubble are the people delusional to think centralization is the solution.