I get your point, but this is baked into the social contract in China. You obey the party, give up some personal freedoms, and in exchange the party will make sure you live a prosperous safe life.

The current EU political class has completely lost their Mandate of Heaven, they command 0 respect because they’re spineless empty bureaucrats looking for a cushy consulting job after they’re done being lobbied by their future employers.

Even if your utopian idea makes sense, I don’t trust the EU politicians to bring it to life, just virtue signal