[AntEater]

How many people watch Bundestag debates on Phoenix?
I usually do when I'm ill at home. Parliamentary debates are dead boring even in a parliament with real politicians. How bad will they be with the Strassburg stooges? The EU parliament is simply Europe's political trash bin.
Every inept, corrupt or simply weird political castoff does inevitably end up there. It is a fact that every european politician whose career has hit a dead end for some reason and who can't secure a post in the federal recycling commission, the war graves association or some other post of equal importance will ultimately run for EU parliament.

Where else in the world would you have a radical french student leader from 1968, the granddaughter of Mussolini, serveral convicts plus serveral former porn stars in one Room?
Not to mention radical nationalists and seperatists from every EU country, plus the usual polish catholic taleban.
I'm really glad that this parliament has no real power, especially looking at their suggestions regarding intellectual property (turning the EU into some kind of Orwellian nightmare for the sake of the music industry) antidiscrimination laws (turning the EU into some kind of Orwellian nightmare by enforcing antidiscrimination by penal law) and foreign policy (military support for Sakashvili)
The EU parliament is a joke, nothing more.