The answer, of course, is very little.

 The Lisbon Treaty acknowledges the importance of tourism outlining, for the first time, a specific competence for the European Union in this field and allowing for decisions to be taken by qualified majority (Title XXII Tourism, Art. 195)

From The European Commissions DECLARATION OF MADRID WITHIN THE SCOPE OF THE INFORMAL MINISTERIAL MEETING FOR TOURISM UNDER THE SPANISH PRESIDENCY IN APRIL 2010 IN MADRID UNDER THE MOTTO "TOWARDS A SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE TOURISM MODEL"

Doesn't it make you wonder why we  bother to have a parliamentary election in the UK, when even tourism is controlled by our real government in Brussels.

Many people are waking up to the fact that the House of Commons is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Law after law, issued by EU directive, or some other method, becomes British law through use of the Statutory Instrument. Thus, MPs fail in their primary duty of scrutinising legislation to ensure that we, the public, are protected from bad law.

The Daily Mail, on May 25th (Jacqui Smith denies MPs the chance to vote over police storing innocents' DNA) highlights a prime example of this failure of government, reporting:

 Jacqui Smith was yesterday accused of trying to bypass Parliament by denying MPs a vote on the DNA database.

It means there is no chance for a debate on plans for police to store innocent people's 'genetic fingerprints' for up to 12 years.

Much of our government is now carried out by bodies outside of Parliament, making parliament less and less important. One of these bodies, is a limited company, that comes very close to running policing policy. See this exchange in the House of Lords and see if you can spot the difference between this limited company advising on policy and actually developing policing policy. From Hansard May 7th, 2009

Association of Chief Police Officers

Questions

Asked by Baroness Warsi

To ask Her Majesty's Government how much they have paid the Association of Chief Police Officers for project work in each of the past three years. [HL2911]

It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice; ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government; ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money. Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess? Ye have no more religion than my horse; gold is your God; which of you have not barter'd your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth? Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defil'd this sacred place, and turn'd the Lord's temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices? Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation; you were deputed here by the people to get grievances redress'd, are yourselves gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors. In the name of God, go! 

20 April 1653

Maybe £6.5 billion seems like small change to you, but that will be our net contribution to the EU next year, and our gross contribution is at least twice that. On May 6^th, in The House of Lords, Lord Campbell of Alloway posed a question:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the justification for the projected increase in the United Kingdom's net contribution to the European Community Budget to £6.5 billion in 2010-11.

The answers are more than just interesting. Read on and despair. After a particularly poor reply, Lord Campbell said:

So said Geraldine Smith MP for Morecambe & Lunesdale on BBC Radio4 this morning.

No. You have really misunderstood the problem. What the public really hates ...