Reddit reviews Europe As Empire: The Nature of the Enlarged European Union

There's an interesting book on the EU becoming some kind of mega state. It's a bit farfetched, and as far as I'm concerned both calls for a Federal Europe and fears of same are pretty overblown. Only when we start seeing any sincere indication that European states, and France, the UK, and Germany in particular, are willing to start integrating their fundamental powers of state—their military, intelligence, and policing (but particularly the military)—will anything of the sort be worth worrying about or rooting for, depending on your view.