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.
Kada se opisuje Evropska unija, često se koriste uvreženi klišei: zajedničko tržište, slobodan protok kapitala i rada, gotovo istovetni nacionalni zakoni, striktni antimonopolistički zakoni, prenošenje ovlašćenja iz domena javne politike na nadnacionalna tela, itd.