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To exercise the amount of economic and military power to be a world super power you need centralized command, control and decision making. The EU won't be able to take on russia if each state is able to back out of the war, and a state isn't fully sovereign if it can't make it's own decisions on going to war.
Same with economic policy, if one state is able to opt out of the free movement of goods and people then the benefits of a single market are diminished, but if a country can't make it's own decisions on trade and immigration policies then they've relinquished some of there sovereignty.
Institutions like the EU already do some of this but it'll need to be a bit stronger to be on the level of the u.s. and China in terms of the central power it possesses. Doing so buts up against the euro-skeptic movement though, which holds the EU back.