Well-entrenched cliches are often brought into play when the EU is being described: single markets, the free flow of capital and labour, increasingly more uniform pieces of national legislation, strict anti-trust laws, devolution of public policy prerogatives to supranational bodies, and so on.
U opisivanju EU često se koriste ukorijenjeni klišei: jedinstvena tržišta, slobodan protok kapitala i rada, sve usaglašeniji dijelovi nacionalne legislative, strogi protutrustovski zakoni, prijenos ovlasti u javnoj politici na nadnacionalna tijela itd.