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There is quite a difference between these two concepts: EU vs USA.
While US is a federation (just like China, Russia & India), EU is still a union of independent national states (some kind of mild confederation). Also EU consists of 27 independent nations, and many other authentic ethnic groups (not to mention a huge amount of legal & illegal immigrants ) - while there is only one nation in USA: American nation (+ many ethnic groups + immigrants).
Imagine EU being a formation like USA, Mexico & Canada would form a union with a single currency, cancel border control within union, have some common governmental bodies, common base legislation, common anthem, common flag etc.
EU is still much more complex & fragile formation. And therefore much more admirable due its latest success. Because till 1945 (and in some parts even later) European countries have been often involved in armed conflicts , and Europe was a very unstable area.
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Really interesting stuff, has there been any problems with corruption, like wasteful spending, i.e. nations using money they recieve from EU to build stuff like roads to nowhere or other pork-barrel projects
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A certain amount of corruption & fraud is always present when state's money is in question, but in very insignificant amount. The laws & controls are very strict, EU judicial system is working, fines are high, so everything is more or less working quite fluently.
To get more info on EU, please visit
http://europa.eu/index_en.htm & search on Wikipedia.
