Europe, the end of a dream?

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            I am of the generation that sang "I want to see Portugal in the EEC", a theme from the portuguse rock band "GNR". I have always believed in a European project that transformed Europe of states, in some real United States of Europe, where it could be Europe from Portugal to Greece, via Britain, Sweden and Germany. He believed in a political Europe, but also social, which encourages the development in order to achieve the living standards of more developed countries.
            I had the opportunity to visit Berlin at the time of the fall of the Belin Wall and then left me no doubt that only a few years would be enough  for East Germany to be equivalent to its big brother. The reality however was contrary to my predictions and even today, after more than 20 years there are still "East Germans".
            Europe thought as I believed I would forget differences and hatreds secular realities separated by languages, morphological characteristics and ways of looking at life and live in society radically different principles in mixing immiscible surrounding a threshold of utopia.
            The global economic crisis precipitated the weaker economies of the eurozone to distressing situations, making inevitable the use of foreign aid as a first test of European solidarity and unity.
            At a time when one would expect support of the strongest economies of the European Union, which was observed was a shaking water from his coat, separating the European First Europeans, the European and North Second, in the South Europeans once we have Greeks, Germans, French, Irish, Portuguese, etc.. Instead of converging, our rich partners of the European Union say that we differ and impoverished.
            Does that only one in Europe or under the table, which means we should be poor, with low wages, job security and more with less social rights is that Europe dreamed? Is it a Europe that interests us?
            I'm still not for me "eurosceptic" but I'm not so convinced on the "want to see Portugal in the EEC" ...