Carnaby looks at the proposed E.U. Bill of Rights.

ARTICLE II-83 Equality between women and men Equality between women and men must be ensured in all areas, including employment, work and pay.

Equal pay for equal work, I suppose. But then you find out that some people are more equal than others.

The principle of equality shall not prevent the maintenance or adoption of measures providing for specific advantages in favour of the under-represented sex.

So everyone is equal, except when Affirmative Action (read discrimination) is needed.

If you read through their whole "Bill of Rights", you'll see that it's basically filled with socialist mumbo jumbo like "free" health care, and "free" placement services. But what really struck me is how different it reads from our own Bill of Rights. The European Union attempts to outline the priviledges that the government is granting to citizens. It even states "The Union therefore recognises the rights, freedoms and principles set out hereafter."

Contrast this to America's Bill of Rights, which limits not what the people can do, but what the government can do. Our Bill of Rights is filled with phrases like "Congress shall make no law" and "shall not be infringed". It seeks to rein in the power of the government, not enumerate the rights of the people.

It is because of that fundamental difference that the European Union (and socialism in general) is doomed to fail.