[jopsen]

Institutions like the EU are hard to build. It's easy to leave or destroy an institution. Much harder to reform or improve it.

The idea that we should have free trade and movement within Europe is not bad. Even unified regulation, etc.

Otherwise, we'll never have to scale to be competitive in the world.

The regulation could be better, less red tape. But that's always the case, everywhere.

But at the end of the day there isn't going to be an alternative to the EU in Europe. So it's better to remain in, and try to improve (yes, this is hard and slow).

The alternative is nothing, maybe a few remote trading partners, but physical proximity matters if you want industrial integration/growth.