Who is going to have enough "balls"?

Yesterday, Tyler Collins and I visited Kehl, Germany, even though it did not feel like going to another country, for me, who have had the experience of living in interlocked countries, and still needing a passport to travel in and out of those countries, namely Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda, it felt really nice, knowing that in the EU citizens of different countries are now free to mingle with each other peacefully and without any travel documents.  You see for us from the U.S. of course moving from one state to another is very normal because of what was put in place by our Founding Fathers, so most Americans cannot understand the feeling I felt crossing into Germany, no visa required, no passport required and no different currency required, no immigration declarations and so forth.

It is hence my dream that one day, the EU will be federated like the U.S., one common currency for all, one common travel document for all and one common language for all!  This might be far fetched, but I would want to think that it is the next fundamental reform required in the EU.

Coming back to France and using our bus passes felt just simply wonderful.  The EU has achieved so much in the free movement of people, I wonder why then the Member States find it so hard to lose sovereignty.  The integration of Europe will never amount to anything much, unless Member States decide to loose their sovereignty!  Europe will be great when it is one Nation, one People, this is like asking for the impossible but that was Schman/Monnet's  idea in the first place, it has taken 50+ years to make some meaningful "baby steps", is it going to take another fifty or so years to make the next major steps?

As I read more into the EU integration, I hope I shall come across somewhere, where one of the Member States is willing and ready to lose their sovereignty, this might be the only cue other Member States are waiting for, and even though I do not know much of the politics in Europe, I hope still one Member State will be brave enough to set the ball rolling. I wish it was as simple as I am putting it, but I know of course, it is not ever going to be easy, but hey, some Member State got to have enough balls to do it, how, I do not know, but surely hope for that.