The biggest issue facing the EU is being Amerikkka's bitch. Europe will never be free until it can throw off the yoke of US domination. NATO is an organisation which became obsolete in 1990, yet it has been maintained as an instrument by which Europe's foreign policy is enslaved to that of the American Empire.

Leave NATO, insist that all US military and intelligence garrisons be removed from Europe, put an end to European participation in US military adventures in the 3rd world, free yourselves of the Russophobia induced by US psyops, and chart your own energy policy. Then you can talk about being free. Until then you are still an occupied people.