> I love Europe, and I want to see the European Union succeed. As a socialist (regardless of my more specific views), I really cannot understand how these two

> I love Europe, and I want to see the European Union succeed. As a socialist (regardless of my more specific views), I really cannot understand how these two views can be held at once. The EU is an anti-democratic mechanism for concentrating economic and political power in few hands within Europe. Many member states basically forced it onto their citizens despite mass objections and even votes against entrance (or rather, adoption of the Maastricht treaty). And the EU has brought mostly negative effects for most Europeans IMHO. It would have been much better for residents of the continent to bring countries, societies and economies closer without this kind of central control. The proposed measure, of forcing good-will providers of root servers, to have to submit to EU inspections of premises, is a (admittedly rather minor) example of this aspect of the "spirit" of the EU.