The European Union’s ambiguity-ridden system is increasingly hard to sell to populations. Stranded in a no-man’s-land between a federal state and a confederation, today’s EU features neither sound democracy, nor prudent governance, nor a vibrant economy. A true federalist system could go a long way toward addressing these weaknesses, but it implies the idea of a nation at the federal level.Even though there is an undeniable feeling of Europeanness in our part of the world, it is still hard to see any “European nation.”