As a very important referendum in Britain, which will decide whether the country will remain in the EU, is fast approaching in June, there is a need for EU leaders to explain the purpose and values of the EU to European citizens, political analyst Nikolay Pakhomov wrote for the National Interest.
"Surprisingly, today's EU does not state its goals and mission clearly," the author wrote, according to the National Interest.
To say the least, European citizens are confused by how the huge bureaucratic system of the EU works with its complex voting system and plans that only a few people understand.
But all of this written in the EU's treaty goes contrary to what the organization is currently doing in regards to Middle Eastern refugees.
Human rights organizations, including Amnesty International, Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Oxfam and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) called the current situation with refugees "appalling."
In the past, the UNHCR has repeatedly called for effective, coordinated and collective action by EU leaders to find a properly managed solution to the refugee situation in Europe and even provided specific recommendations to the EU.
Despite this EU leaders chose to do their own thing and struck a deal with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose human rights record is far from best.
In return, the EU pledged to provide a total of 3 billion euros (over $3.3 billion) to Turkey to help it provide for the refugees there, with a further 3-billion-euro provision possible.
These recent policies show that the EU isn't a peacekeeping organization, the National Interest reported. Now if the EU can't hold true to one of its most important ideals and it doesn't have a clear goal, then what's the whole point of it?
