Too Little, Too Much

The European Union works based on a few simple principles. One of them is, that they do what they do because they it makes sense to do it on a European scale rather than leave it to the national governments. The official term is subsidiarity.
Let us look at a current example: the European Union wants to give each child between the ages of 6 and 10 one piece of fruit every week. The hope is that the project will help combat obesity.

Tell me this: is this project too much, too little or both? Personally, I think it's both!

One piece of fruit per week doesn't change anything. From the perspective of general health, it is underfunded an unambitious to the point of being ridiculous.

One the issue of European necessity, I am still unable to see how doing this on a European scale serves a purpose. Each country should decide this sort of issue themselves.

So what are we left with? Well, as usual just another piece of bureaucracy without effect, without mandate and without a shred of common sense.

Next year, we'll be voting for new EU parliament members. With our luck, not a single candidate will see a flaw in this wonderfully pointless initiative.