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| Authored by: kg on Wednesday, December 12 2012 @ 01:54 AM EST |
I found it ironic (and almost delightful) that the European
Commission's response to the resounding defeat of the EU
Constitution in France was to say that obviously the people
didn't understand it, so they wanted to run another PR
campaign and put it up to vote again.
(Then they scrapped it, and didn't ask... and don't call it
a constitution...)
The best part about that constitution was the bill of
rights, that was about 100pp long (I kid you not) and after
ever enumerated right, it contained the disclaimer that you
were guaranteed this right as implemented by your member
state. Talk about ambiguity.
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| Authored by: Winter on Wednesday, December 12 2012 @ 03:13 AM EST |
"The EU is a bureaucratic behemoth existing primarily for the benefit of
finance and industry and it is on the brink of splitting at the seams as a
consequence."
"Brussels" has less civil servants than the municipalities of Greater
London, or Paris, or Berlin. Bureaucracy begins at home.
What stings in many countries is that the one thing the EU does effectively is
suppressing protectionism, cartels, and worker discrimination.
The next time you hear complaints about some "bureaucratic regulation from
Brussels", think about the ways that problem was used to block imports from
other community member states, or to discriminate against foreign workers, or to
defraud consumers.
Case in point is the UK, who were rumored to join the EU only to destroy it from
the inside ("Yes minister").
The UK opposition against technical harmonization in, eg, power plugs, was
mainly motivated by protectionism. Opposition against Polish migrant workers
seem to fuel a lot of the anti-EU feelings.
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