But does he really accuse the EU of anything? As far as I can tell he is talking about "European regions", which isn't limited to the EU. But I wonder whether t

But does he really accuse the EU of anything? As far as I can tell he is talking about "European regions", which isn't limited to the EU. But I wonder whether that 831m is a typo though, as Wikipedia says 731m. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe But comparing Europe to the US, is fairly arbitrary, why not compare it to North America?