欧州委員会のレストランでの食卓のオリーブ油瓶の撤廃の法律は、多数の反対に会い提出されず、
Bruselas o la curvatura del pepino
Las críticas de algunos países obligan a la Comisión a retirar el veto a las aceiteras rellenables La excéntrica normativa comunitaria en hortalizas y otros productos da alas a los euroescépticos
El veto a la aceitera en los restaurantes muere antes de nacer
Luis Doncel 6 JUN 2013 - 16:41 CET
Brussels or curvature of cucumber
The criticism from some countries require the Commission to withdraw the veto refillable The cam oilers Community rules on vegetables and other products gives wings to the Eurosceptics
The veto of the oil in restaurants dies before birth
Luis Doncel 6 JUN 2013 - 16:41 CET
If the initiative had come forward, from next January 1 every restaurant in Dublin to Athens to Helsinki would have had to banish the oilers that clients use to dress the salad or when they kill hunger dipped the bread before it reaches the plate. Instead, the owners of the establishments would have been forced to offer sealed dose containers or bottles to show that the oil is really olive and no one has filled the flask with a lower quality product. Reviews, and above all, teasing-showered, mainly from northern countries, and the European Commission, promoter of a measure designed to favor the olive sector, chose to withdraw before the outright rejection of governments like Britain or Dutch end up in conflict.
The controversy reminds others that have delighted the press more allergic to the European project. As the episode in which the Commission was determined to regulate the curvature of cucumbers or when it was established that the leeks should have a color "white to greenish white." This is a debate that always go the ends. On one side of the trench are those that describe Brussels as a city populated by swimming in privileges officials whose only task is to regulate down to the smallest detail of everyday life with only one requirement: that these rules are useless. At the other extreme, those who face any criticism fly the blue flag with the 12 stars and accuse Europhobic who dares to criticize the Commission, the Council or Parliament.
López Aguilar: "That the EU only deals yogurt is facile populism"
It is true that this is an old discussion, but now, less than a year of elections that are more favorable to alarmingly Eurosceptics and amid a crisis that has left 27 million unemployed in the EU and that triggered disenchantment with everything that smacks of Europe becomes more important than ever. Oilers in restaurants, a matter seemingly insignificant, becomes a metaphor for the problems that haunt European construction.
The question is simple: Brussels have too much regulation? The answer is not much. Even the Europeans admit that in some cases it has gone too far. The differences come in the shades. Socialist MEP and former minister Juan Fernando Lopez Aguilar said: "I rebel against facile populism that the EU is a bureaucratic monster that only deals with the labels of yogurts. It is simply not true. " López Aguilar, who chairs the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs of the European Parliament, supports "remnants of an era in which the regulatory emphasis coming down the side of the internal market", but the former Minister of Justice in the Government of Zapatero recalled that the EU Lisbon Treaty came has broad powers in important areas such as fundamental rights and the social agenda. "It's very easy to make a blunt speech this or any other initiative, but it is wrong," he concludes.
It is these details that lists Hans Magnus Enzensberger in his book published last year in Brussels The gentle monster. In the chapter that discusses the regulation on ecodesign requirements for household lamps, the German writer wonders if the 14 pages on which the European Commission tells citizens how they light their homes are due to "the conscientiousness, stupidity, arbitrariness, the desire to impede or perhaps pleasure, sadistic inspiration, to issue orders and prohibitions. " "Nobody knows exactly, or even managers themselves," says the author of The Number Devil.
The most critical countries are calling for more rules on horse meat
But critics point out not only the abundance of rules and their limited use, also question the way in which decisions are made by poor transparency of institutions. Vincenzo Scarpetta, a political analyst eurosceptic think-tank Open Europe, said that the case of oilers shows how far the EU is lost: it does not address the right priorities and then has to back down under pressure from some countries. "The decision was made on a technical committee that the vast majority of people does not know its existence. No one knows to what extent these initiatives are taken in response to the common good or the pressure of the sectors that will benefit, "Scarpetta says.
Lorna Schrefler, CEPS study center, given the need for more transparency in decision-making, but states that the Treaty of Lisbon and gave more powers to the Parliament and challenges the accusation that Brussels legislate only to the dictates of private interests . "I do not think there are more lobbyists here in Washington or any other center of power," says the analyst. "We can all ironic about over-regulation, but if we sell refrigerators in a single market, it would be the plugs are the same everywhere," adds a eurofuncionario. Here the problem is just the opposite, because there are still different plugs by country.
It is at this time when the debate begins to mix with the ideology. For many who lash Brussels by regulatory excess casually observed that States involved in the daily lives of its citizens. As summarized a senior community that prefers to remain anonymous: "We often make excesses. But the question is not whether Brussels regulates too much, but if there are too many rules in all administrations. It is intellectually legitimate to separate the two issues. "
"If you want to sell refrigerators in the EU, we must unify plugs"
It is the double standard of complaining on the team of Commissioner Dacian Ciolos, proposed abolishing the oilers in restaurants and then reversed. "There has been a communication problem and we must accept our responsibility, but the biggest criticism came from countries that were once the most vocal in calling for a European response to the scandal of horse meat," says a spokesman for the commissioner veiled reference to the UK.
It was precisely the British Prime Minister David Cameron, who said the aceiteragate as "the example of the issues on which Europe should not even discussed." And it was his Minister for Europe, David Lidington, who on a recent visit to Berlin noted a number of European standards-on shoes and jewelery to be carried hairdressers, business hours, prohibition of advertising of snuff or imposition of quotas for women on boards of companies ... - to explain the loss of confidence in the EU. "Some say that this loss is temporary, linked to the crisis. But my experience tells me that the economic recovery will not solve the democratic deficit. Politicians and experts talk about principles, but citizens pose it in more practical terms, "said the British minister.
Ciolos himself admitted last week in Parliament that although the Commission fought "like a lion" by farmers, withdrew the initiative because he risked it to look like a battle against consumers.
Not only criticizes over-regulation, the lack of transparency
It is precisely this danger that hangs over a Europe that has just come out of the recession, and in which several Southern countries face a deep depression. One wonders why the Commission gets into these issues and, instead, did not rule on the irregularities of the Spanish mortgage law that has allowed tens of thousands of evictions until the Luxembourg Court ruled that it was incompatible with the European directive consumer protection. There remain some tics of the past. "We have reached a level of integration in which the State must rethink classic. We work as if we were organizing the free movement of people and goods. That has been achieved. Sometimes I see the Commission an attempt to fill the void to justify their own existence, "says a source from the Council.
Oilers will continue to reign in the tables of restaurants in Europe. Brussels has since reversed, but that does not ensure that the flame of distrust jump again at any time. Eurosceptics will cling to any exotic rules arising from here to the European elections to be held in May 2014. It should be vigilant.
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