> The central point of the ideology called "socialism" is that control of the state (not of private owners) over the "means of production".

> Usually this leads to heavy oppression of the people, to some sort of police state.

And EU are doing all of that (through bureaucratic regulations and control over the media).

> there is not a single country that has socialism in it's constitution

But it matters what it is in a political reality, not what has been write down in some papers.