Then they still don’t understand how it works. Most of those decisions require unanimity. Sometimes, on very cardinal issues they can get one or at most two dissenters to “leave the room” - see Hungary - but half the Union?
Also, the French are too spiteful, the Germans too absorbed in their bureaucracy to be bullied. Everyone else hates the US on principle.
Then they still don’t understand how it works. Most of those decisions require unanimity. Sometimes, on very cardinal issues they can get one or at most two dissenters to “leave the room” - see Hungary - but half the Union?
Also, the French are too spiteful, the Germans too absorbed in their bureaucracy to be bullied. Everyone else hates the US on principle.