Re:this cloud has a silver lining though (Score 2, Insightful)

"The EU is pretty fragmentary and local law trumps EU law when it comes to the citizens of your own country. This creates all kinds of loopholes." That's completely false. EU law (if correctly adopted, and with sufficient legal basis in the treaties) prevails over local law. Also, some EU laws (the regulations, as opposed to the directives), don't even have to be implemented into local law to have direct effect.