European Demos

Sorry for harping on about this, but according to (the actually Europhilic) Europhobia there is no European Demos forming:

49 years after the creation of what is now the European Union, there is likewise precisely no indication of any dilution of national identity in any of the member states.

Not a surprise and something I have noted before. But it is a problem. For a Federal democratic EU to work there needs to be some demos so that the voters vote for the people best running the federal bits for the good of the whole federation. Not just what is good for there bit of it, or even worse because a particular candidate comes from there bit of it. And have no illusions, a nation state of some kind has always been the goal of the EU right back to when it was just a dream for Monnet and his fellow idealists.