It's become a commonplace: Europe does nothing for its citizens other than produce useless laws that complicate people's lives. Commonplaces, as we know, have a long life and are taken up and propagated, especially by certain people who benefit from getting them accepted: some of the different national political classes (it's so convenient to blame Brussels if something doesn't work), lazy bureaucracies and superficial journalists. Only those who are not in this category appear to understand...