Hat tip @NigelFarage we can witness presently the spectacle of EU Komisar Olli Rehn explaining to the EP in terms which are in the best Stalinistic tradition, the necessity for EU member states to fork over their national sovereignty to Leviathan, so as to... ensure democracy and accountability! Orwell lives!
In passing it transpires the union has proclaimed 2013 the year of the fracking European citizen, a notion which does not even exist, but is nevertheless pushed through our throats by agit prop paid for by ourselves, the tax payer. It's the euro equivalent of the Commie Chinese who send the bill for the bullet to the family of the executed.