In all the hoo-hah recently about busty barmaids being banned by the EU, a sly remark by the Sun slipped through my net:

We vowed to give big-boobed barmaids all the support they would need to beat the ban. It was due to be rubber-stamped by the EU parliament next month under the Optical Radiation Directive."

Oh? Why "rubber-stamped"?! The European Parliament rarely, if ever, lets through a Commission proposal unamended - unlike our own dear House of Commons, which almost always approves government bills. Don't knock the democratic part of the EU!