The EU is a bureaucracy and any bureaucracy's goal is to justify its existence by creating more bureaucracy. I'm personally anti-EU. European countries are way too different so that broad legislations can work with 27+ different countries.
But really, just the language thing is enough to make the comparison silly.
About that..
If something isn't popular enough to pass muster for the majority of people and the majority of states, it should stay a state law instead of a federal one.