It hasn't done anything to stop the Heroic Waffen SS Marches and rehabilitation of Nazism in the Baltic States or (I don't think; I haven't been following it) the disenfranchisement of the very large Russophone population there.
(Specifically Latvia and Estonia; Lithuania is fine.)
--- On Wed, 9/16/09, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> EU can be credited with the extension of civil rights to
> minorities (e.g.
> gays or women) in backward Eastern European states.
>