I digress … thoughts on fish & the environment
As a species, throughout our history we have communicated primarily by the spoken word. It is literally hard wired into our DNA. Whilst the written word has been around for a few thousand years it is an evolutionary blip. As a means of mass communication, it has been around for only a few hundred years. … Read more
I came to Brussels back in 1997 a wide eyes federalist. Soon afterwards, I landed up working for 2 excellent British Labour MEPs. I was very lucky. I just worked on getting difficult pieces of legislation through quickly. First, I worked for Gordon Adam MEP on fisheries legislation. Then after that law was passed I … Read more
I was sitting down with some people who are working on a new proposal the Commission hope to put out the door before 29 May cut off. I asked where they were in the process. It had gone to the Regulatory Scrutiny Board and passed with flying colours. In a few days a legislative proposal … Read more
President Juncker’s Political Guidelines are being ignored before the 29 May cut off for new legislative proposals. Core to the President’s Political Guidelines is the idea of ‘political discontinuity’. As the Commission wrote back in 16 December 2014: “What is political discontinuity? The principle of political discontinuity applies at the start of a new political … Read more