Better In Than Out

I have long thought that the future of the European Union is one large European nation run along the line of the United States of America and i am certain it will happen at some point.
The 27 strong EU is already an influential and major player on the big Global decisions and it was heartening to hear the president of the European Council, Antonio Costa, announced that expansion remains a strategic priority.
This was said in a meeting with Western Balkan leaders in Albania, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Kosovo and members of the European Parliament’s influential Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET) travelled to Albania and Montenegro to discuss the entrance criteria and reforms required to join what is already the World's largest single market.
The Treaty on the European Union states that any European country may apply for membership if it respects the democratic values of the EU and is committed to promoting them but the main conditions are  stable institutions guaranteeing democracy, the rule of law, human rights and respect for and protection of minorities, a functioning market economy and the capacity to cope with competition and market forces in the EU and the ability to take on and implement effectively the obligations of membership, including adherence to the aims of political, economic and monetary union.
Negotiating to join the European Union takes an average of just under ten years although other countries have spent much longer in negotiations, Cyprus and Malta took nearly 14 years to officially join and Turkey started in 2005 and Serbia in 2009 and are still at it so the rules of entering the exclusive club are pretty strict but very rewarding.
As Great Britain is finding out with our moment of mass stupidity that once outside of it, it is MUCH better to be inside it.