EU Government – Value for Money?

When are the European taxpayers going to stand up and say what needs to be said about the EU dinosaur that pretends to be a legislative body.

The pronouncements that come from that august body seem to focus on who is allowed to call what sort of piece of meat a sausage. We are told that the Swiss town of Champagne can not label any of it’s own produce as coming from the town because the French producers of a certain type of sparkling wine have got a stranglehold on that word. And we are regularly regaled with the definition of meat content that certain sausages have to have if they are to be called xxxx. For some reason the central parliament is deemed to be an expert on all local matters in the EU. So when Finland starts the annual wolf hunt (with strictly limited quotas, in specific areas of the country), the EU bans the hunt proclaiming the wolf an endangered species in some areas of the Alps. They try to make a common EU policy statement concerning Turkey’s behaviour when it is none of their business really. And of course they fail even with this as each member state wants to issue their own statement or non-statement regarding Turkey.

Every year taxpayers across the continent pour millions of Euros into the bottomless pit that is Brussels (and Strasbourg – more on that later!!), and all they get for their money is an endless supply of fatuous statements that are not worth the paper they are written on. When you think of the enormous departments of staff that are required behind the scenes to supply the carefully calculated inoffensively worded directorates, you realise how much money could be saved by just closing the office and letting all the MEPs, committee members, research staff and translators go back home where they came from.

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