European union is a case in point for increasing bureacratisation and rule by technocrats...it undermined sovereignty and democracy which is why britain exited.

Also the referendum can be seen as a retrograde step as it harks the world back to parochial sentiments and identites such as conservative nationalism intolerance of others etc. Britain would have had to suffer a little but eventually both eu and britain would have won. The referendum showed that democrcay by masses is what plato calls is hysteria and  mob rule..

Norway along with iceland and liechestein follows the eea