> The ability to travel, reside, work anywhere I desire in the EU as a right that I can rely on instead of having to ask for permission
This was a founding principle of the EU and has been weakened recently as I'm sure you know. Also, in most countries you have to register and are only allowed to stay 6 months without work. Marrying people from other countries in Europe is not a problem and not an achievement of the EU.
> Last but not least: 75 years of peace in Europe. Making the arch enemies of France and Germany friends.
Here you lost me completely. This kind of revisionism is a real issue for the remain people. It was mostly EU countries who bombed Belgrade in 1999(!). 75 years of peace in Europe is a myth (there were plenty of other conflicts, including the current one in Ukraine!) and where it was peaceful it had nothing to do with the EU. The EU was formed in 1992, for heaven's sake.
I'm sorry for being brutally honest, but "75 years of peace in Europe" is one of these typical pro-EU talking points always brought up by badly informed people who embarrass themselves with it.
Registration is a matter of declaring that you're there. You have to register, only if you're getting employed or applying for benefits...
I can rent an apartment in Warsaw, while officially working in Berlin and never bother telling Polish government that I am a resident there. (FFS! I did that multiple times in various EU countries... Ireland, UK, Netherlands, Denmark, Italy...)
And guess what? Nothing will happen. At worst I'll show my tax statement from Germany and tax authorities will fuck off.
Now I moved to US.... Where I have to ask permission to fucking leave this shithole of a country.
> I can rent an apartment in Warsaw, while officially working in Berlin and never bother telling Polish government that I am a resident there
Good for you, but I "can" sneak into any country of the world and remain there illegally like you. It doesn't mean I'm entitled to and neither are you.
> And guess what? Nothing will happen. At worst I'll show my tax statement from Germany and tax authorities will fuck off.
You are dreaming. Look at the legislation and don't argue with slacking bureaucracy.
> Now I moved to US.... Where I have to ask permission to fucking leave this shithole of a country.
Did anyone force you to? I perfectly understand "leave" voters who want to prevent this kind of migration: people who come for economic reasons but show no respect for the country and its laws.
> Good for you, but I "can" sneak into any country of the world and remain there illegally like you. It doesn't mean I'm entitled to and neither are you.
Fun fact - nowhere have I been illegally. And yep,
But sure... You define illegally however you wish.
> You are dreaming.
Yep... I've done that twice. That's my dreaming.
> Did anyone force you to?
I was lied to. You know Americans love to claim that USA is the greatest. It's not.
And I made slightly more in Europe, than do now.
This was a founding principle of the EU and has been weakened recently as I'm sure you know. Also, in most countries you have to register and are only allowed to stay 6 months without work. Marrying people from other countries in Europe is not a problem and not an achievement of the EU.
> Last but not least: 75 years of peace in Europe. Making the arch enemies of France and Germany friends.
Here you lost me completely. This kind of revisionism is a real issue for the remain people. It was mostly EU countries who bombed Belgrade in 1999(!). 75 years of peace in Europe is a myth (there were plenty of other conflicts, including the current one in Ukraine!) and where it was peaceful it had nothing to do with the EU. The EU was formed in 1992, for heaven's sake.
I'm sorry for being brutally honest, but "75 years of peace in Europe" is one of these typical pro-EU talking points always brought up by badly informed people who embarrass themselves with it.