In continental Europe having people from other EU countries work in your home country is seen in a more positive light. Alas... people concentrate on muslim immigrants here, instead.
I really think the UK should drop out of the EU to be honest. I prefer the UK being a member country but most people have an extremely negative image of the EU and if people prefered to drop out you should give them the right to do so.
I agree the EU is not democratic enough in a lot of ways and the European parliament needs to get more power so we can actually elect the parties and people we want. But what we need is not an anti-EU movement but some sort of pan-European party (not national parties that happen to form parliamentary groups). I'm especially sick of national leaders trying to get the best out of every situation for only their country while blaming everything that went wrong on the EU.
Europe has seen centuries of war and hatred, Nazis, communists and monarchists, changes of borders and I don't know what. I'd much rather live in a united Europe. I happily pay my taxes even if they are used to support Greece and Ireland because its not the people who drove those countries into debt but the governments that even lied to their people in the case of greece. But we can only make this a fair and liberal Europe if we stop thinking in national dimensions. What we need are leaders who are able to take responsibility for all people living in the EU. In no way does that mean changing our life-stlyes, though. If there was a pro-European movement by the people there'd be no fear of losing one's identity. But that is not in the interest of our national leaders.
Parts of the EU in its current form somehow manage to take away our sovereignty without uniting us. It should be the other way around. People united in freedom, not people divided in officialism. Merkel and Sarkozy didn't get that message, though.
