Remember folks, Obama would find the EU as the ideal political system to manage and to control. If he could, he would strip the US of its constitution, and replace it with the statist EU version. Of that there is no doubt.
UPDATE: EU underestimated depth of crisis, says chief
“We have underestimated the depth of the crisis in some countries,” EU council chief Herman Van Rompuy said Tuesday during a debate in the European Parliament. He admitted however that solutions will be difficult, as they are “now about the crux of the matter: sovereignty and solidarity.”