The other day I wrote about some bans which had been considered (or passed) by Spanish and EU Governments.
Looks like EU legislators are disobeying their own smoking ban:
"A complete ban started on January 1. In practice this was not working too well, people were not obeying it," said a press officer for the EU parliament in Strasbourg.
The vote comes two weeks after the EU's Health Commissioner Markos Kyprianou said he would seek a comprehensive ban on smoking in public places across the bloc's 27 member countries.
"It certainly is an odd message. Everywhere else in the world, smoking bans are respected," said a second parliament official.
Very coherent.
Los eurodiputados, coherentes que son ellos, aprobaron un Ley prohibiendo fumar excepto en los espacios reservados. Pues bien, la están incumpliendo....
"Es ciertamente un mensaje extraño. En cualquier otro lugar del mundo, las prohibiciones de fumar son respetadas", añadió un funcionario del Parlamento.
Me pregunto qué pasaría si eso ocurriera en un bar. La multa que les iba a caer...
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And then I find in Le Mount de Sysiphe that EU wants all European countries to apply commonly the smoking ban in the public places. It would not be a directive allowing each country to decide how they will do it, but only a common recommendation.
People should fulfill this ban as the EU legislators... ;)
Básicamente, la Unión Europea quiere aprobar una recomendación común para que en los 27 países de la UE se prohíba fumar en los lugares públicos. ¿A que suena cómico? Cuando menos...
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