EU: Let's regulate driving!

Never mind that monetary union and everything else connected with the statist EU experiment is proving to be a catastrophic failure, the Eurocrats continue to rearrange the Titanic's deck chairs.  This time it's regulating bad driving.  A summary from the BBC:

The EU plans to give police new powers to prosecute European drivers who break the law in another EU member state.

EU transport ministers will discuss a draft directive on Thursday which aims to set up an EU-wide database of vehicle registration details.

"A foreign driver is three times more likely to commit an offence than a resident driver," EU Transport Commissioner Siim Kallas said.

Many drivers currently escape penalties when they return to their home country.

The draft directive from the Commission calls for cross-border enforcement to curb four "big killers", which account for 75% of road deaths: speeding; ignoring red lights; failure to wear a seatbelt and drink-driving.