>>On the other hand we have most American pundits saying that the EU is right for doing everything right, i.e. doing everything differently from the US - getting handed more than two weeks of vacation simply for being hired, mandating a work week less than 40 hours, forcing employers to pay way over the actual value of the work ensuring high youth unemployment, mandating that companies subscirbe to fictional global warming policies and treaties like Kyoto while having no success in actually adheering to the agreed levels...while on the other hand they claim that the Euro Zone is an unmitigated success without having weathered a single downturn, attempting to repackage the repeatedly voted down Euro Constitution over and over to the point that they've actually removed the concept of a vote of the people from the process because they know what's best.
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>And what is wrong with this?? Your comments please??

Pure negative is nothing new - it's just the mirror image of the original. The obvious elephant in the room is that the reason that the EU constitution is repeatedly voted against is (from what I've read) that it's each time an attempt to introduce a lessez faire capitalism US/UK style. Luckily, in Europe there's still voting that counts.