If you were looking at corruption, then Greece is a good example of being pulled back from the brink by the EU.
When a country wants to join now, they undertake to join the Euro, but there’s no time scale. Denmark still hasn’t joined, and there are others.
Greece was bankrupt and wanted to join...
There were some corrupt MEPs. They were sacked immediately their corruption was discovered unlike this country who can’t even sack one MP without nearly causing civil war.
It makes me laugh when people complain about EU laws made elsewhere. Why do they think Sunak was trying to get 4000 items of legislation off our statute books?
Did they appear by magic, or did our Parliament decide to accept them by voting them on?
Even Sunak has realised he doesn’t need to...