The plan is a Europe with open borders and without nation states

Ulrike Guérot the "Founder and Director of the European Democracy Lab", at the European School of Governance in Berlin, said in an interview in Deutsche Welle that 

the existence of nation states is in itself one of the biggest problems with the European project. 

She went on to say that Angela Merkel was right to let in the migrants, but did it the wrong way. She should have consulted the other EU countries first. The second point is true. 

According to Frau Guerot, the influx of migrants into Europe is not a problem caused by the EU, but this is not quite right. Were it not for Schengen, far fewer migrants would
have come and those that did would not have got beyond Greece and Italy.

She regrets that 'populism' prevents more much needed European integration and therefore 'a new model of democracy'.

She is interviewed again and very interestingly here, by New Eastern Europe. In this interview, she argues that Europe should become one state in which the people, not national governments, are sovereign. It sounds almost like Rousseau's doctrine, implemented by Robespierre, of the General Will.

I think we need to distinguish between the Europe we want and the EU we have.

This reminded me of the Communist distinction between true socialism, the nirvana that Marx promised and for which they were striving, and 'real existing socialism', the kind they had in Eastern Europe. 

I think the intellectual task is to think how we can organise a valid, full-fledged transnational, parliamentary and representative European democracy that cares for all European citizens, so that people do not need to go down the route of nationalism and populism to revolt against the EU.

When she blamed populists for spoiling the EU's plans I heard, 

And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids.

She goes on:

If we want to reconstitute Europe as a political project, the people, the citizens, need to be the direct sovereign of the political system in Europa. And that would mean to abolish the European Council and replace it by a two-chamber system. And if you then extend that different Europe to the Balkans, the problem is no longer whether Kosovo or Moldova or Bosnia as states join the European union. The thing then would be whether we integrate the citizens of those areas into the Res publica Europea.

In other words the solution is very much more Europe, Europe as a single country. 

But how does she intend to create a European people? Without one, popular sovereignty cannot exist. 

The answer is that she has no idea.

She sees the European Union as the solution to the German Question. Her internationalism is very German. Just as France's is French - they want a surrogate for the Napoleonic system and la gloire. 

This is fine and makes sense, but if she wants to create a sense of common identity she should want far fewer non-European immigrants. She should oppose letting in migrants if only to make her European project feasible. But she cannot because, so I suspect, arguments based on national identity are wrong, even wicked, in her eyes. 

This German spirituality is in some ways beautiful and has caused so very much terrible harm in the world.

German nationalism destroyed Europe twice. Now German internationalism is destroying it.

And it's not just Germans. I am told by friends who mix in these circles that Euro-enthusiasts talk (usually privately) of immigration and multiculturalism as helping their 'project' by weakening national identity. Far easier to dissolve Germany into a 'European Republic' if half of Germany isn't German.

Meanwhile United Nations representative, former EU commission member and former Goldman Sachs banker Peter Sutherland is always worth keeping an eye on. He said at a meeting in Berlin that opposition to open borders ran counter to

the values of the EU – the dignity of man and the equality of man.

These values are of course ideas of the French Revolution. The EU was created by devout Catholics but owes a lot to the French Revolution, nothing to the Common Law tradition. 

He went on,

...We’re not just talking, either, about refugees. We’re talking about economic migrants, many of whom could be the future, and some at the present… are survival fighters. They’re not to be dismissed as an irrelevance.

He absolved the EU from blame for preventing immigrants entering Europe. It was, he said, 

the absolute failure of member states, its governments.

Mr. Sutherland is certain that accepting unskilled migrants from poor countries would benefit European economies when the evidence suggests exactly the opposite. But it is clear, I hope, that we are dealing with an ideology, in this respect like Marxism, that uses the language and claims the authority of economics but is in reality a religious phenomenon. 

In fact, Mr. Sutherland is a devout Catholic and this free borders ideology is something he may have learnt from the Jesuits at Gonzaga College, where he went to school.

No-one calls Ulrike Guérot or Peter Sutherland extremists. Mr. Sutherland is a papal knight and she is loaded with EU honours.