But there wasn't really anything to be gained from doing so.
But the EU has a more immediate job to do in the western Balkans and a lot to gain from doing it well.
I've seen the comments that they write alongside their entries saying how much they've enjoyed and how much they've gained from doing it".
As to what I'm looking to gain from doing this, I'm not really sure... it just seemed like something I'd want as a fan.
"Although my master's degree had precisely nothing to do with my business, the confidence I gained from doing it was a huge driving force in giving me the impetus to set it up," she says.
But it could be a long and complex one, since the politician with the means to checkmate Mr Berlusconi is the very one with least to gain from doing so.
"There is a lot you can gain from doing much of the initial work in analog," avoiding the dissipation of power that occurs in digital number crunching, where each of millions of elements handles part of the computation.
China began to act the way many developed countries in North America and Europe do: it had destroyed much of its primary forests, gained from doing so, and was now protecting the trees it had left by buying wood indiscriminately, often from "high risk" countries, like Indonesia.
The host then does something pretty incredible: even though he's already paid for the three dates previously described, and even though he has nothing to gain from doing anything more, he still gives the bachelor and bachelorette money for their next date.
There is very little, if anything, to be gained from doing that.
Indeed, Madonna has plenty to gain from doing the show for free.
