The EU had some great time not long ago but it lost its way. Now apart from GPDR what was the last good news you heard from this EU? Was it about automatic censorship filter? About Frontex turning into a military organization designed to help people die at sea?
From some perspective, the EU is much better than my local corrupt/authoritarian government (France) and effectively serves to keep french abuses of power in check (though it always takes 5+ years of litigation to reach the European Court of Human Rights or the ECJ). But in even worse-off countries like Hungary the EU is essentially powerless against human rights abuses.
Also in France the EU had zero negative impact because the EU is more or less controlled by France (and a handful other countries) so the neoliberal anti-social policies are usually already in place before they became mandatory on a european level, but in some EU countries the EU is the reason your kids can't study, your cousin lives on the street, and your grandma can't afford healthcare. I'm thinking about Greece among others here, where EU has put enormous pressure on an entire country to pay for banking shenanigans and created enormous suffering for the entire population just to pay of a few french/german banks who can well do without (and without whom we could do well, as well).
So it's not exactly one-sided. And in fact, we could make the argument corruption and anti-democratic policies in the EU (anti-social regulations, proposals ignored by the parliament which has very little power compared to the commission) is part of what's led to the new rise of fascism across Europe. To keep Greece as an example, people massively voted for Tsipras a few years back, but under Troika pressure he took away all his campaign promises and sent the riot cops against the local population just like the previous government. So now they have a right-wing authoritarian government who's cracking down even harder on social services and launched a military assault on the only free commune of the capital (Exarchia) where life was a little less worse than elsewhere around the country.
Is it supposed to be that hard to keep only the good stuff and say fuck you to bankers and other suit-and-tie people?