EU Parliament OKs 48-Hour Maximum Workweek

AP ^ | 5/11/5 | JAN SLIVA

[ScaniaBoy]

OK guys, head over to this site: eureferendum

The Bloggers have done it again!

The head of the EU Commission - their President - will face a motion of censure thanks to the intrepid bloggers at that site. Once again. lame MSM and weak politicians don't understand the force of the pajamahadeens!

[Jim W N]

EU...another word for socialist dictatorship and Economic Underutilization.

[CasearianDaoist]

Do you think it will have any real effect.

[ScaniaBoy]

NO, but one can always hope. It is like Clinton being impeached but the senators letting him off. (We know all about that, don't we?)

Barroso is guilty as sin, no doubt about it. But of course that's not what's going to do him in. On the other hand the socialists may consider this a good chance to get one of their own in place - they don*t have the majority, but together with the Eurosceptics, some Greens and a few brave Conservatives they may actually dispose of Barroso - and then all hell brakes loose. (Love it!)

OK, I think the chances of this happening is about 1:20. But at least Barroso can't go to Paris where he was supposed to campaign for the Yes camp - always something.

[j23]

You wish your neighbour ill? That's not very nice. I'm a European and am exasperated by the Brussels meddling in things that should be left to nation-states.

[inquest]

The notion of a "common market" makes sense. The notion that Italians, Germans, and Frenchmen should determine how many hours an Englishman works is just plain nutty.

The problem is, the one inevitably leads to the other. You can't have a system of complete free trade over a certain area without there being nearly irresistable calls for some kind of superintending authority. That's what the "free traders" in our own government understand only too well.

[Malesherbes]

Of course if you're unemployed - like 12.6 % of the Germans and 10 % of the French - then the maximum is zero hours per week. This includes August when nobody in Europe works.

[simber9]

The simple answer is for the UK to leave the EU. The sooner we do the better. Why Blair and his cronies want us in it I do not know.