Back to normal?

Glenn Reynolds thinks that Europe is now "the Sick Man of Europe." I must agree with him. However, straightening out Europe would require "strong-man" management of a sort that's not easy to stomach. It seems the French have grown comfortable with more than 150 cars burned each night, and have decided that the riots have gone away.
The Catholic Church has just lost one hundred arbitrary points. It turns out that they're considering beatifying Robert Schuman, one of the "Founding Fathers" of the European Union. There has also been talk of Sainthood. Let's review some other Saints in comparison to Schuman.
St. Maximilian Kolbe
-Was imprisoned in Auschwitz in 1941 for sheltering Jewish refugees
-Smuggled bread and wine to hold mass for the prisoners
-Took the place of a young, married man in a starvation chamber
-Ministered to his nine fellows for three weeks of starvation and dehydration
-Martyred by carbolic acid injection after the Nazis got tired of waiting
St. Thomas More
-One of the most learned men of his age
-Chancellor of State under King Henry VIII
-Fired, exiled, and imprisoned for his courageous stance
-Beheaded because he would not commit perjury
Robert Schuman
-Was briefly detained by Gestapo
-Was religious
-Prime Minister of France (for less than a year)
-Convinced Germans to join Monnet's "coal and steel community", now the EU
-Died in his bed at the age of seventy-seven
Could someone Catholic kindly explain to me how Schuman belongs in the company of More and Kolbe? From where I stand, it sounds to me like the Church is beatifying people based on politics, not merit. It seems that the charges made by Protestants about that practice aren't so spurious after all.