Is the heterogeneity of the EU measurable?

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Can we visually measure and present how heterogeneous and different has become the EU at the different stages of its development? Can we create something like the “EU’s heterogeneity index”, or is it more appropriate just to talk about an “attempt to measure EU heterogeneity”? Surely such an attempt, if succeeded, would contribute substantially to the debates on the future of the EU, making them more thorough, professional and comprehensive. In recent years, we have witnessed the creation of numerous indexes, many of which are trying to measure difficult or even impossible at first glance values such as happiness, life satisfaction, human development. Such an attempt would be entirely in line with this trend and its aim should be to present a real picture of the EU’s changes in recent decades, as well as to make predictions about its development in the future. In the best of the cases, it could also find the approximate value after which the EU is no longer a sustainable and viable political project.