A full social survey of cycling habits would be much more useful than some of the crazy surveys undertaken by sociologists.
The cycle to work scheme sounds good but I have not heard of many people using it. People seem to be cyclists or not cyclists and a little bit of cash here or there may not be a big influence on their habits. What they want is safety – and comfort.

How popular is the cycle to work scheme?[ http://www.cycletoworkfinance-lhe.co.uk/faqs.html ]

In the City of London a great many lawyers, bankers and sharks travel by bike (or, to be more accurate, by Brompton). Some do it in pin-stipe suits. Others arrive in dayglo lycra and don the city uniform (probably without ties) in the toilets.

Interesting cost curve. I wish it included cycling as a means of CO2 reduction.

I have read that migrants are almost always harder working and more productive than natives, which never does much for their popularity.
Re the room in Warsaw, I wonder if all-white would make me calm/unproductive, calm/productive, bored or lazy?
If one is sure that democracy is the worst form of government except, as Churchill remarked, all the others, then the problem with the EU is that it is fundamentally undemocratic: the bureaucrats have most of the power and are convinced, like all bureaucrats, that they have the best knowledge of what is best for the people. Could they change? Not willingly.

It is very difficult for individual Polish and Romanian people if British people feel swapped by their compatriots. (Without being told they are lazy and expensive to employ in the own country). I am sure if an equivalent amount of English people decided to buy property in Warsaw using their superior economic strength the Polish government wouldn’t take the line that it is “good for them”. [ http://www.homestate.pl/clientzone.html ] and [ http://www.themovechannel.com/propertyforsale/6-bed-house-warsaw-poland-9521816/ ]

Instead of policies which promote lose/lose situations the EU should aim for policies which are win/win situations.

Perhaps there needs some imaginative brainstorming in the EU parliament by the ministers to decide more equitable and beneficial outcomes?

I do not follow it closely but my impression is that the EU does well on environmental policy and other cross-border issues of the same type. Its single great achievement, so great that many people think it outweighs everything else, it that it has brought 2000 years of near-continuous warfare to an end.
Re migration, the departure states think it is great and there is resentment, at various degrees, in the destination states. At present there is concern in the UK about the right (since 1.1.2014) of Bulgarians and Romanians to settle in the UK. Yet we have often have their foreign ministers on the radio saying we have no right to complain and that it is good for us. About 1.2m Poles have come to the UK since 2002. They have the reputation of working harder than British people and for less money.