Did anyone really except anything different?
The entire European project is set up to make things as smooth and easy as possible for megacorps and the banks to take control of the lives and destiny of over 500 million citizens.
https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2011/11/17/23/Pg-12-eurozone-graphic.jpg?w968h681
That's what ever close political union brings (read United States of Europe) and that's why the sensible majority voted leave in the EU referendum.