Reply #36: They also offer an alternative to RW extremism; and exert pressures for human rights. [View All]

[LeftishBrit]

E.g. a country that criminalizes homosexuality cannot join the EU. Also anti-death penalty, etc.

It is not perfect, but the alternatives are worse - as shown by the fact that most RW-ers hate it.

(Former Euro-sceptic here; converted to support of the EU by the anti-EU right-wing tabloids, Mark Steyn - and, by far the most of all, by George Bush and Blair's alliance with him.)