Re: Propaganda
EURid is not part of the so called "European Bureaucracy", it's a non-profit organisation appointed by the European Commission as the domain name registry.
It is indeed, and is required by the commission to process .eu registrations according to the rules of the commission as defined in all the treaties listed on its website. It doesn't matter how clever Prof. Verbaeten is, he's still just a policeman for his masters.