The opt-outs for the UK....

....are "worthless," according to Margot Wallström, European Commission Vice-President.
What's most important about this article is the point that many Europeans are either unwilling or afraid to admit -- that as certain "competences" are ceded to Brussels by treaty, judges at the European Court of Justice will likely give the Union an ever-expanding mandate to legislate. (We have the same problem in the US.) Of course, we should expect nothing less from the new empire.