I´m really glad you say that!
Because that´s the point, this EU followed the same principles as communism does, all men are equal (slaves) under a small elite leading clique. Which in the case of the EU (and if you look close of communism in general, because it is only a variation of capitalismn, best seen in today´s China) are banks and global Players! All men serve equally, in disregard of their sex, colour, religion, nation, origin - for they are slaves and for they serve the same purpose, chained to the oar, which is "row well and you live"!
So this EU was and still is deliberately destroying the old Europe and its traditional structures, followed all the according dark schemes since WW1, carried it to a new extreme. All nations enslaved under the ring of power, (well, Tolkien knew!), symbolised in those 12 pentagrams forming a ring, are treated the same, as slaves are treated!
But the English and the German common people share the same blood (whereas since the battle of Hastings the english aristocracy has French blood).
Freed from the ring of power and EU-communism the free people of Europe can once again choose their bonds according to their own will and I am sure there will a lot more mutual exchange between England and Germany than between them and all the rest of Europe.
If I´d ever play part in politics I certainly will encourage this, based on my own bonds with England!
https://vk.com/photo427604851_457240921 (I hope this works)