Fran:

But like the EU rulebook, her solution is sure to baffle even the most enlightened observer. Hübner wants to introduce a new multi-million-euro program, with the sole purpose of elucidating three other multi-million-euro programs.

Is this type of denigrating tone going to get worse as this piece continues?? Could someone please spell out to me, again, how much the total EU budget is in GDP numbers?

To answer my frist question... Yes. It does get worse.

EU Expands Bureaucracy to Explain Bureaucracy | Europe | Deutsche Welle | 30.04.2007

in order to reveal unto local administrations some of the deeper mysteries of European law.

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...what is largely viewed as the EU's monstrous and mushrooming bureaucracy.

Then again, this is nothing compared with what goes on in Malta.