On: Brexit was a harsh political awakening for young people

[TruthAndDare]

I guess what I'm asking is why we need the EU in the first place when it comes to issues like this one when we could make that kind of agreements anyway, without having to cede all power.

[gutnor → TruthAndDare]

You don't need to, but the EU is that way.

We don't even know what is going to happen in the real world, that's difficult to make projection in a hypothetical world were the EU was built differently.

For example, would the UK have voted out in the first place in such a world ? Would Turkey be a member of the EU ?

Edit: Let's add a bit more info. The goal of the EU was to become the USA of Europe. Can each State of the USA determine its own immigration rule directly with foreign nations ?