He's right, saying EU needs to re-unite instead of starting to fall apart, but that in my opinion shows, where the EU is at and where the EU brought the Europeans. These Brexit-like things are pretty much a very loud call to the EU "hey, something is wrong here! fix it!" but they don't hear "their people". Too many useless things they care about.
He's also way too focussed on his "America is an idea" thingy. We are not the United States of Europe. Forget that. Things are way different here. But how can he know? He is not daily affected in person by any of the big problems the EU has.
In "U2 and politics" - honestly, I understand the fact, Bono is trying to use the voice he has as a celebrity, of course, it surely already helped a lot to make people focussing and getting sensitive etc. BUT - they are still a rockband, which I wanna see play. The part of politics seemed to have grown over the years. I think 3mins a show would do it, but there you have these videos to certain songs of refugees, of foreign war countries, starving children, then you have the RED and ONE things, his speeches (getting longer and longer) - it's getting a bit too much and yes, sometimes I really struggle with it. You can skip or mute a bootleg, but unfortunately not a live show
Actually, I go to a rock show to leave all these daily struggles behind me, and Bono puts them back on schedule . On the other hand, there are so many "rich VIPs" in there, that even can't name more than Bono, who don't care at all for these problems - but they sip their champagne and don't follow the show, so they won't listen.
It's always difficult about this Bono+politics topic. I think the band many times roll their eyes, too, about how much it became part of the shows.
