The spirit of the law is generally pretty uniform across the EU.

That might be but it is not a real single market. It is bunch of countries working with a similar framework.

Here i am waiting for more than 2 months for a legal contract because my employer is in a different country and does not have a legal entity in my country.

EU to a large extent is a failure to nurture talent and multiply capital.

>>Europe is 27 countries

No, Europe is 44 countries the subset of Europe that is EU have 27 members

I think it's pretty clear they were referring to the EU. No need for semantics wars.

Calling the EU Europe is made on purpose to conflate the two and make it obvious that all countries should unite into this political union. I think it is very useful to point that to people who conflate the two terms

I think that's putting words into peoples' mouths.

It's an ideology in favor of the European Union

You're being pedantic. It's not an ideology.

Similarly, calling the USA "America" to conflate it with the rest of the continent in order to drive their idea of Latin America being "the back yard of the USA", or, more recently "the front yard".

Technically correct.

Russia is about 40% of the continent but few people want to go there, especially under current circumstances, and the remaining 16 countries are either EU associated (Switzerland & co), former members (UK), EU candidate countries, or countries frankly too small and/or poor and/or remote.

The EU is the elephant in the room.