Re:There's no point to this article... (Score 1)

Well you may have studied EU law for 2 years but it looks like you have only studied EU politics for 2 minutes. The EU is not even close to being a supranational federal entity and political power rests very much with the national governments who decide if when and how EU Directives will be implemented. National courts follow national law, not Brussels. Many EU nations have a long list of un-implemented directives of which the leader is France. Indeed when EU directives and other nonsense do not suit a sovereign state it just tells the EU to go and get stuffed - again three recent examples come from France. (1) France flatly refused to obey EU directives and court decisions relating to beef imports (2) France has refused to allow the ECB (European Central Bank) to set its budget and (3) France and Spain have announced and enforced (with warships) a ban on single hulled oil tankes > 15yrs old within 200nm of their coast. So dear US Slashdotters remember that Europe is in reality the feisty disunited continent that it always was, regardless of the desires of would be empire builders. Brussels is not the capital of Europe, it is just a retirement home for failed bureaucrats and politicians and of course a life support system for Europe's farmers who take half the budget.