2 cows.

European Democracy: a definition.

You have two cows. The EU regulates when you can milk them - then pays you not to. It takes both; shoots one; milks the other and pours the milk away.
You are then required to fill in a form accounting for the missing cow.

Thanks to Michael Parker in this week's Yorkshire Post for taking the '2 cows argument a step further than I have ever seen before.