Yeah, because that's exactly what all Norwegians, Lithuanians, Polish and Luxembourgish do.

Besides, you still fostered T. McVeigh, and are a nation of gun nutters with a proven questionable judgement with the recent election of your clown president. Why shouldn't we protect ourselves against the likes of you?

Others would use the term "a civilised society with consideration for the not so well-off".

For traveling within Europe, the difference between the shitty "old" airlines and the shitty discount airlines is not worth talking about. It really is on long haul you feel the service mindedness or lack thereof. Hate to say it, but in my experience Lufthansa provides the least shitty long haul economy service among the European carriers.

Plus, BA cabin crews don't give a shit about economy travelers in spite of the "ask us anything to make your flight better"-promise.

I bet they only buy "pre-owned" cars rather than used cars too :)
I see you never visited Luxembourg... (GDP per capita index 271 in 2015 compared to Germany's 125...)

Slashdot does regularly pee-review on their submissions, I'm sure.

Except that no European VW owners will ever see any compensation for VW's fraudulent behaviour. This is only in the USA, AFAIK.

Does the US even have technology and available manufacturing capability to do 8 MW wind turbines? European companies have been developing this technology since the early 1980s, starting with puny ~50 kW turbines.

Dear Coward Anonymous: Please point out where I am lying. In the meantime, have a look at this video. I think Alan Moore's vision of a totalitarian Britain would agree with you.

What? The European parliament *is* elected by the people and they have the final say over what the European Commission legislates. The head of the European Commission is appointed by the Council of Europe which is composed of (surprise, surprise) the governments of the respective European member states. The European Commissioners even have to be approved by the European Parliament.

Where is the democratic deficit in that?

Moreover, European officials are told to leave their national special interests at the door and work for the European people as a whole.

Economic integration requires common legislation. At least the bureaucrats were recruited based on skill based selection procedures. Most probably, they are better qualified than the populist idiots in the national parliaments.

And as an added advantage, you have the ability to use deadly force to avenge your shoes for the beer someone unfortunate would happen to spill on them.

Oh, it's just ketchup.

Ever heard about BiCMOS processes? Integrated circuitry packing CMOS for logic/DSP purposes along with BJT based blocks for RF or stuff such as low-jitter drivers for long haul optical communication lasers?