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Why is Europe taking up arms against herbal remedies?

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Daniel Hannan MEP, Spectator.
12th March 2011.
The third reason for the ban is, however, the most powerful. Whenever an apparently absurd law of this kind emanates from the EU, ask yourself cui bono — whose interest does it serve? In this case, there is no mystery: the directive was openly lobbied for by large pharmaceutical companies, which saw an opportunity to put their smaller rivals out of business. Not for the first time, big corporations have used the EU to push through rules which national assemblies would never have countenanced. MPs were left in no doubt about how their constituents viewed the proposal. But Brussels fonctionnaires are invulnerable to the ballot box: the EU was designed, in the aftermath of the second world war, precisely to shield them from public opinion.
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Why is Europe taking up arms against herbal remedies?
Wednesday, 04 May 2011
Allergic to Freedom Daniel Hannan MEP, Spectator. 12th March 2011. The third reason for the ban is, however, the most powerful. Whenever an...

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