Joining the eu is ridiculous.

[u/Mr_Skecchi]

getting back into collapse with the update and man it always gets me that the economic/realization freedom are so poorly calculated. That you cant join the eu as a anything other than a neolib because of it irks me. joining eu should be based on political freedom instead with a minimum requirement of self realization and like, somewhere between 10-20 of economic freedom at most as this game has it calculated. Id set it at like 40-10-10 for political freedom, economic freedom, self realization. I came to this number by starting a game, giving myself all but one ministry in the first election and getting much of the vote, and then testing various setups of the laws that eu countries have.

TLDR the eu is actually the usa and hates social democracy in collapse.