Top ten EU achievements in 2006

With achievements like this, who can argue against the beneficence of the EU .

1. It took steps to ban misleading claims on food packaging, helping consumers choose healthy foods and avoid obesity.
2. Another of the EU's targets has been roaming charges on mobile phone use within the EU. Extortionate prices – averaging four times the price of a domestic call – are now being curbed.
3. A new law regulating chemicals will protect workers and consumers, requiring industry to replace hazardous chemicals with safer alternatives wherever possible.
4. In the technology field, the EU has been developing its own satellite navigation system, Galileo.
5. Internationally, the EU has sent troops to the Congo and south Lebanon
6. Other major achievements in 2006 include Bulgaria and Romania's EU entry
7. Slovenia's adoption of the euro,
8. Cuts in sugar prices and an end to overproduction,
9. The opening of the European market to trade in services,
10. Measures to tackle illegal immigration.

So here goes:

1. Does anyone really believe that it will make a difference.
2. If the public had really been that worried about it, the market would have provided a solution.
3. Reach is a morons approach to health and safety, based on a wish that we lived in a perfect world.
4. Why????? The American GPS is freely available for use.
5. Of course the might of the EU is so useful, (he laughs to himself) what would we do without it.
6. Circular argument. A major achievement of a club, is two new members.....
7. Poor old Slovenia, it was doing so well.
8. A quarter achievement. Right direction, not nearly far enough. However, it was only made necessary by the existence of CAP (which wouldn't exist without the EU).
9. Real attempts to liberalise failed, so we stuck a plaster on the wound.
10. Haven't actually noticed that one, must have been a summit or conference.

Shame it cost so much to achieve so little isn't it. Thanks to Istanbul Tory for pointing out this little gem.