Hope for Europe

Do not tie the markets – free them by Vaclav Klaus

Aggregate demand needs strengthening. One traditional way to do this is to increase government expenditures, probably in public infrastructure projects, on condition these are available. It would be much more helpful, however, to have a great reduction in all kinds of restrictions on private initiatives introduced in the last half a century during the era of the brave new world of the “social and ecological market economy”. The best thing to do now would be temporarily to weaken, if not repeal, various labour, environmental, social, health and other “standards”, because they block rational human activity more than anything else.

Flag flying Eurofascism

Nicolas Sarkozy attacks Czech refusal to fly EU flag:

"The manner in which Cohn-Bendit demanded that President Klaus fly the EU flag over his castle could easily have been done by a German official of over 70 years ago or a Soviet official of 20 years ago," he said.

"No doubt they think that Buckingham Palace should fly the EU flag to show its dominium."

EU Food Policy

Celebrity Chef Jamie Oliver condemns and denounces the EU

"Ugly Vegetables and Fruit Again to be Sold in Europe!" by Doug Bandow:

Amazing. The European Union actually responded to criticism. About one-fifth of European produce has to be dumped because it doesn’t mean minimum EU standards, which have nothing to do with health. Under criticism for conducting a jihad against ugly veggies, the EU appears to be backing down–though the vote will be close.