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Regarding EU bureaucracy, isn't it clear that some is required? Otherwise how do you replace, for example, 28 different national systems for classifying banana
by derriz 9y ago
Regarding EU bureaucracy, isn't it clear that some is required?
Otherwise how do you replace, for example, 28 different national systems for classifying bananas with a single classification without a certain amount of bureaucracy? You either hive massive multilateral discussions among 28 national bureaucracies or you get rid of the individual national burocrats and delegate this function to Brussels.
I love the bananna thing btw - it's a long time favourite of EU haters as an example of EU overreach. Europhobic UK newspapers have milked it for years - out-of-control bureaucrats making up useles regulations and creating red-tape. But they never mention that it replaced was 28 individual national banana classifcations.
- matt4077 9y agoNote that the "banana regulation" is actually no longer in force, because "EU bureaucrats" got tired hearing it dragged out in every single debate. The result is that the content of the regulation have become the de-facto standard in the industry that everyone is following voluntarily.
- allendoerfer 9y ago> The result is that the content of the regulation have become the de-facto standard in the industry that everyone is following voluntarily. It was even the other way round. Lobbyists of merchants wanted cheaper transport costs and solved it on a EU level.
- matt4077 9y agoIt was both ways around. The wanted it, got it, then continued using it after it was no longer official.
- renaudg 9y agoExactly this. And the UK is going to learn about it the hard way (if it goes ahead with Brexit, less likely by the day). The Euratom debacle is already showing that.