Pointless and ineffective. It's creation was probably necessary but I don't think that this 'structure' will stand. Europeans will never think of themselves as the one country and that's fatal. Every country will be trying to take advantage of its neighbours and I don't think Europe will ever be truly unified. There are natural leaders like France or Germany and there are backwater outsiders like Eastern Europe. Seeing as France sends the gypsies home only proves my point.