So, a few years ago former European Central Bank president Mario Draghi was hired by the EU parliament to produce an international report on why Europe has stopped growing and how it can be fixed. Instead, what they got from Mario Draghi and his international team with 100+ specialists was a /pol/-tier blackpill report where Draghi even went as far to suggest the dissolution of the EU being more likely than not.
Draghi pulled no punches:
>Russia's natural gas supply was essential for european manufactury, and thanks to the USA, Europe has to sanction itself into a recession by not trading with their historical neighbor
>EU economy was two times the size of the USA's in 2003, now it is not even 25% of it
>european capital keeps leaving the continent and going to Texas and California, while americans do not invest in Europe at all
>only good remaining economy in the EU is Poland, and all measures to prevent a pension crisis such as bringing in immigrants have failed
>focus on expensive green technology only weakened Europe, especially because they can't even buy good green technology from China for cheap because the USA forbids it
>the EU is itself quickly becoming a burden for founding states, and there is no way to harmonize the interests of Greece, Hungary and Germany without ripping off one of them