There's an aspect to this which is a bit like numbers. People understand their own country, vaguely, how it works. But when you start thinking about supernational entities like the e u, and about some of the post breton woods financial institutions, people really just don't understand what any of them are or how they work. The european union is kind of caught between being partly successful and articulating a sense of purpose and identity at the european level that transcends previous identifications with individual nations.

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