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October 29, 2005
Circuses and eels
I have started to become far too acquainted with EU institution for my own good. This week I visited the European Parliament in Strasbourg. A most impressive building and I do think that it should actually be the one selected to be the permanent basis for the parliament over Brussels. The bizarre practice to move the parliament every month should indeed stop but Strasbourg is the sensible alternative to keep.
During my stay one of the main issues was about new directives regulating circuces and eels. It shows that one of the main problems for the EU is that there is a lack of a proper division of power (the Daily Telegraph gave a good insight on this). Many of the European institutions seem to have troubles of making their existence know at home, that is why they engage in policies that should be decided on the national level (if at all)
The problem is that the EU establishment does live in bubble. There are no significant pan-European media, so the MEPs read the news from back home, but since those media do not write about the European level they have to get their inspirations from national policies. We should need a pan-European debate, soon.
Posted by Waldemar at October 29, 2005 07:17 PM