Posts Tagged ‘eu directive’

Posted on March 31, 2009 - by AbsurdEU

Call that an Island?

There are EU laws on what legally constitutes an island- anything with a bridge to it is not an island, nor is it an island if it is less than 1km from the mainland, it is not an island if it has less than 50 permanent residents or if it contains an EU capital city.

Posted on March 31, 2009 - by AbsurdEU

Juniper oil regulated by EU

All medicinal substances which have a physiological action have to be licensed under EU laws. Juniper oil has a physiological action - yet if you have three or four non-medicinal gins in the pub, you’d get more juniper oil than you would when taking a herbal remedy.

Posted on March 31, 2009 - by AbsurdEU

Sorry Sir your Kiwi is too small

Bristol market trader Tim Down, 53, was forced to bin 5000 kiwi fruits worth  £1,000 because they were 1mm smaller than EU rules allow. He was forbidden from even giving away the perfectly healthy fruit.

Posted on March 31, 2009 - by AbsurdEU

Jobless Eastern Europeans can still claim the dole

Jobless Eastern Europeans can still claim the dole in the UK because an
EU directive says that provided an unemployed worker is seeking a job in their homeland, they can continue to be paid benefits by the country where they were laid off.