Maybe his best philanthropic effort would be to set up a college for mayors where they learned from him the basics that old time mayors all knew, namely, how to help the economies of their cities make private sector jobs sufficient to keep their populations growing.
The ministers also aim to stop "asylum shopping" - the phrase used to describe how would-be refugees move through EU member states in an effort to find the best host country.
The two areas in which the most hand waving has been done are the ability to provide a quality telephone product over the best-effort Internet and the possibility that providing telephone service over IP might be economically feasible.