The EU has done some excellent things - it has pushed the development of sex discrimination law, of race discrimination law, of other discrimination laws against eg sex orientation, contract workers, and part time workers. It has gone some way to preventing wage slavery imposing 60 hour working weeks (except, unbelievably, for doctors).

It has failed to protect the rights of trade union workers and trade union agreements - Thatcher inspired legal technicalities still allow workers who stick to union negotiated agreements to be discriminated against.

It has proven utterly supine before the might of the digicrats. A little high profile posturing about the Microsnot monopoly, but tracing of users in case they go to unwelcomed websites (before long it will be the ones that support political change, just watch), exemptions for ISPs who cache material that infringes private rights, but the secret police for the ISP's who permit what the people really want - file sharing - and criminisation of the removal of "technical measures" that prevent people from exercising the rights they already enjoy under exceptions to copyright law.

More recently, the ECONOMIC community has bought wholesale into the management speak of privatisation that will make the citizen pay for infrastructure, but sell it to oligopolists so that they can force the citisens to pay again.

A curate's egg that requires urgent reform.