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[SoFarSoGood]

Since you evidently have not checked I can confirm for you that "Europeforall.com was developed, with the support of the European Commission, by the pan-European partnership, OSSATE, which stands for "One-Stop-Shop for Accessible Tourism in Europe"."

Among other rubbish it clearly states that OSSATE (project); "The project is co-funded by the European Commission “eContent” programme." Yes we are paying for this!

See: http://www.europeforall.com/about.se...rsationId=4252 for other madness on 'Photo and Measurement Guides' which Hotels etc are asked/required to use to join some unknown proposed Hotel Guide presumably. Of course this is being done and lunatic posters commissioned (I wonder how much it cost?) while Greeks starve. So good to live off the taxpayers... Happy Days!

[Beskar]

Since you evidently have not checked I can confirm for you that "Europeforall.com was developed, with the support of the European Commission, by the pan-European partnership, OSSATE, which stands for "One-Stop-Shop for Accessible Tourism in Europe"."

Among other rubbish it clearly states that OSSATE (project); "The project is co-funded by the European Commission “eContent” programme." Yes we are paying for this!

See: http://www.europeforall.com/about.se...rsationId=4252 for other madness on 'Photo and Measurement Guides' which Hotels etc are asked/required to use to join some unknown proposed Hotel Guide presumably. Of course this is being done and lunatic posters commissioned (I wonder how much it cost?) while Greeks starve. So good to live off the taxpayers... Happy Days!

europe4all is different to europeforall ...

europe4all is a political group
europeforall is a tourist site

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

I have a better giggle for everyone - the Directive on the Cornish Pasty specifies that it should be crimped ONLY on the side, but many traditional recipes are crimped on the top, and they use the harder rye pastry rather than wheat pastry common to the modern pasty.

According to the EU - a traditional Cornish Pasty is not a Cornish Pasty.

[Tellos Athenaios]

But the joke is on your Cornish pastry makers, because those directives are merely about protectionism for local specialities and they are not drawn up by Brussels on its own: they are submitted/requested by trade organisations. So the purveyors of traditional Cornish pastry have effectively disallowed themselves from marketing their perfectly traditional foods as such ...

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

But the joke is on your Cornish pastry makers, because those directives are merely about protectionism for local specialities and they are not drawn up by Brussels on its own: they are submitted/requested by trade organisations. So the purveyors of traditional Cornish pastry have effectively disallowed themselves from marketing their perfectly traditional foods as such ...

This is not lost on me - but neither is the fact that the EU didn't tell them to take a hike. Someone in Brussels enjoys drawing these things up and enacting them.

[Beskar]

Same category as Spettkaka in Skane (South Sweden)
Or like how Champagne can only come from Champagne.

I prefer Cornish Icecream to pastries anyway, though best Icecream is Bonds which is a locally produced one near here.

[Tellos Athenaios]

This is not lost on me - but neither is the fact that the EU didn't tell them to take a hike. Someone in Brussels enjoys drawing these things up and enacting them.

And if the EU did tell them to take said hike, the Cornish would go all "big bad EU trampling over our precious Cornish pastry, no respect for local traditions or values whatsoever!" If the EU were a proper government with proper power as opposed to a bunch of treaties with lots of hyper sensitive toes sensing being trod on then telling to go take that hike could work. As it is, it would merely result in complaint burried in the annual fodder of complains to bring up when something is up for negotiation: "and the EU doesn't recognise our Cornish pastry traditions neither, for shame!"

You know it would.

Anyway a lot of that stuff is just the various cries of me-too after the big ones (champagne, parma ham) got meaningful protection from (inferior) products out of it.

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

And if the EU did tell them to take said hike, the Cornish would go all "big bad EU trampling over our precious Cornish pastry, no respect for local traditions or values whatsoever!" If the EU were a proper government with proper power as opposed to a bunch of treaties with lots of hyper sensitive toes sensing being trod on then telling to go take that hike could work. As it is, it would merely result in complaint burried in the annual fodder of complains to bring up when something is up for negotiation: "and the EU doesn't recognise our Cornish pastry traditions neither, for shame!"

You know it would.

Anyway a lot of that stuff is just the various cries of me-too after the big ones (champagne, parma ham) got meaningful protection from (inferior) products out of it.

The Cornish winged when a Cornishman tried to carry a Cornish flag over the Tamar during the Olympic torch run and a policeman took it off him.

In order for the EU to be a "proper" government it needs popular backing - these medieval ordinances are designed to foster that, but like most else they're counter-productive.