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It was hard for anyone in the UK to make sense of how efficient the EU was in regards to making laws. The general consensus was that they were too slow and did
by monk_e_boy 10y ago
It was hard for anyone in the UK to make sense of how efficient the EU was in regards to making laws.
The general consensus was that they were too slow and didn't go far enough. Last summer there was a lot of talk about bee die off and what to do about it. The EU was simply too slow to do much about it. Banning pesticides or whatever. With most of these laws that people feel passionately about (farming, housing, jobs, energy, pollution, etc) the EU is so so so so slow.
- ZeroGravitas 10y agoIt sounds like you move in non-standard circles, of progressive people who've accidentally absorbed right-wing propaganda. They'll perhaps get a shock when the UK very quickly moves to rip out consumer and environmental protections that it regularly fought to prevent passing while in the EU.
- vertex-four 10y agoNote that the UK is perfectly allowed to implement additional regulations on top of what the EU provides. If the issue was too little regulation, as in your example with the bees, the British Government could provide what additional regulation it needs to.
- krona 10y agoTry searching "France, british beef, ECJ" in your favorite search engine, and behold how wrong you are.
- vertex-four 10y agoYou can implement regulations that affect other country's companies just as much as your own - what you can't do is ban an entire country from competing in your market. If you want to regulate British beef, you have to implement just as much regulation on all other EU beef.
- desas 10y agoOne of the reasons the EU was slow about neo-nicotoids was because the British government was arguing against the ban...
- legulere 10y agoMost of what the EU passes is regulations that the member states have to put into laws. The member states can create laws that are stricter. For instance the EU mandates at least 14 weeks of maternal leave (http://ec.europa.eu/justice/gender-equality/rights/work-life-balance/index_en.htm http://ec.europa.eu/justice/gender-equality/rights/work-life...). All EU countries except Germany actually mandate more than 14 weeks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_leave#Europe_and_Central_Asia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_leave#Europe_and_Cent... Similarly countries can also have stricter laws regarding pesticides.