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Matthew writes: Commissioner President of the European Union Romano Prodi has announced that rather than assessing fees to member states to fund its costs, it will be suing U.S. and Japanese multinational corporations and using the proceeds to finance its operations.

“At first, we were just suing Microsoft because everyone else was doing it,” said Msr. Prodi. “But when we realized that we could hit them with hundreds of millions of dollars in fines without them blinking, we were like ‘ka-ching!’ This frankly solves one of the EUs major growth hurdles and will allow us to exceed the governance limitations placed on us by the member states which they enforce through budgetary control. Having an independent war chest, so to speak, will make the expansion of the EU much simpler. We’re going after Sony next, as soon as our lawyers can figure out why.”