Quote Originally Posted by HoreTore View Post
Norway is, as they say, more european than any other european country. We have adopted each and every rule, standard, etc that comes from Brüssels. Why? Because the EU is good for not just our economy, but every other economy as well.
That depends, while I generally support the Union etc. I am increasingly getting the impressions that the people who make decisions are not thinking things through, or in other words, not doing their jobs properly.
One indication of course, is that Greece got into the Eurozone by lying and noone noticed they faked their finances.
Another is that we're all forced to use CFLs now but a laboratory working for a german TV magazine apparently found out that they emit carcinogenic gases.
Link is in German because I cannot find one in english, google translate may be of help.
Add to that that if they break, they poison the whole room as well with all the heavy metals etc. in them.
And thanks to the EU, we cannot go back, LED may be an alternative but they're still expensive, not always suited for the same tasks and who knows how poisonous they are?