The US Constitution limits federal powers. We have no principled discussion about this at the EU level. It's completely random, e.g. defense is national in the EU vs Federal in the US, whereas AML is at the EU level, vs state level in the US. Daylight savings time was at the EU level and then it was changed to national level because they couldn't agree on it. One of the few sensible designs is that trade agreements are EU wide.
The EU has too much institutional power. And uses that to keep passing laws all over the place with practically no democratic oversight. Sure, it's the fault of national parliamentarians who don't pay attention. But if you give power back to nation states, or even lower levels, they don't have to pay attention. One must account for human nature.
This shouldn't be confused with ethno-nationalism, that's an orthogonal issue. The EU could pass a Regulation to ethnically cleanse the whole union tomorrow. And there'd be nothing you can do about it, because taking the EU to court is complicated, takes years and the law continues to have effect.
We know from AML law that human rights are not protected. The only thing that prevents the above scenario is the political majority. History shows that's not enough protection.
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