New eggs cannot be called eggs
It is the egg that dare not speak its name – thanks to the bureaucrats of Brussels. In what astonished critics derided as a half-baked decision, European Union officials have ruled that a new egg from...
View ArticleEU orders eggs to be stamped with home address
The European Commission has certainly “gone to work on an egg”. Its latest requirement is that farmers must stamp every egg they sell with their home address, the details of the hen which laid the egg,...
View ArticleUnscrambling the headlines
Despite numerous news reports in the past 48 hours, there are no EU plans to ban the sale of eggs sold by the dozen, or even by the half-dozen for that matter! The media frenzy was generated following...
View ArticleDaily Express’s “11 barmy EU rules” either do not exist or are rather sensible
A pop-up on the Express web site, appearing for some time now via various pages featuring EU “news” and prominent in online searches, is headlined “Brussels’ craziest decisions.” It cites “the top...
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