Exactly! EU's sole purpose, destroying nation states to merge them into something else.
Yes, and that would be a great thing, if only that resulting state wasn't going to be an authoritarian police state.
The current derailment shouldn't discount the whole project, though, and definitely shouldn't discredit the general idea of "unification".
Evolution, world is getting more and more global, we need to embrace that trend or be crushed by reality.
However we also need some bits of decentralisation.
It's a difficult balance, and the problem now is that the governments don't understand that.