Instead of dealing with the dangers that affect the Union, Brussels continues to make laws for the shape and measures of the screws, fishing networks and larvae market. An unnecessary bureaucracy that oppresses companies and citizens.
Ursula von der Leyen evokes the “bazooka” to fight American duties? In Italy, in the same hours, the decisive modification to the regulation on the “new shirt dimensions in white cod fishing” is triumphantly published. In short: while studying the decisive countermenuses, the continental fishermen are forced to have Righello again. Any rude people will be duly sanctioned: each perpetlic must be 13 or 15.5 centimeters wide. Nor little more. Nor little less. Prohibited leaves interpretations. However, it is difficult weeks for the whole category. To remain on the same fish species: there is the directive that establishes the reopening of the fishing of charcoal cod in the Norwegian waters for the boats that beat French flag. And other stringent indications for the sole, the glasses, the aeglephin, the wavy breed, the scorpionfish.
Dozens of regulations, decisions and directives. Does the old continent experience the deepest political crisis ever? Governors and mandarins continue to split the hair into four. Just take a look, so to speak, given the endless papelli, to the Official Gazette of the European Union. It receives all the decisions taken in that of Brussels: 707 acts, only in the first three months of 2025. There is everything, in those thousands of pages. Moreover, at least 60 percent of our laws are imposed by the EU. Yet in theory, they all agree: we have to blaze, cut, merge. Giorgia Meloni, Italian premier, warns: “The excess regulation in every sector is a real internal duty”. Mario Draghi, revered former president of the ECB and author of the Messianic Report on the competitiveness of the Union, quantifies the nefarious regulatory overabundance: “it is equivalent to a duty of 45 percent on manufacturing assets and 110 percent on services”. Emanuele Orsini, president of Confindustria, details also: «We built 13 thousand rules in five years at European level. In the same period, the United States made 3,500. ” Even von der leyen, like the executioner who gives a buffet to the intricate, agrees. Only in words, though. On the one hand, the President of the European Commission announces an epochal sburocratization with the “Omnibus package”. On the other, its zealous bureaucrats continue to regret us of rules and rules.
There is no topic on which the very diligent avoid applying themselves with wealth and pedantry. Even “portable musical instruments transported by travelers”. At the moment, explains one of the most recent directives, they are exempt from duties. However, often “they are transported together with their accessories, as well as accessory equipment or equipment that do not benefit from the same customs simplifications”. In short, “equality of treatment” is urgent between guitar and custody, battery and wand, violin and bow. Justice, finally, is done. As well as for the “screws without head”, unbelievally imported from China. The Certosin EU in detail: “screws and bolts, also with the relative dice or swallows, without headboard, of iron or steel, excluding stainless steel, regardless of the resistance to traction, with the exception of pitches and other screw screws, screw hooks and vines, self -tanging screws and screws and bolts to fix the elements of the via ferrata roads”. From now on, it will be paid. And the duties can even be collected “on retroactive”. The ruthless Donald Trump, American president who dreams of gabelles everywhere, takes notes for future ideas. Even the radios they love to play children must be regulated. The Walkie-Talkie of the Paw Patrol, as known, are a conclaimed threat to the democratic estate. The interferences to control the remote baby represent an imminent danger. Not to mention the “spiderman” devices branded, with which the small disaster talk from one room to another.
In Brussels the alert is maximum. The rules must be “harmonized”, to fulfill the 2014 directive on “cybersicacy”. Also this time, there is little to joke. Another axillo of the Euroburocrats are the wanders, small two -seater sports aircraft. Last January, while the world continues to tribulate, the Gazette Another appropriate regulation disputes on these “autogiiri”: it is then necessary to include “the requirements for the issue of flight crew licenses”. It is clarified, however, that it is necessary to “consider the rules and the best practices established in the national requirements”. In short, another forest of paragraphs and references to clarify that the patron laws must be followed. The decision published on 18 March 2025 is also remarkable. It explains that “relevant measurement and calculation requirements for washing machines for domestic use and linen washing machinery must be harmonized. Thus, “where these harmonized rules apply during the assessment of conformity of a product, the model is presumed compliant”. Elementary, Watson. Therefore, the commission clarifies, if they respect the rules they are really in order.
After all, how did those old essays of the Latins say? Better to abound, right? And on the quantity of bureaucratic superfluous, nobody can compete with Ursula and his. A deluge of articles, paragraphs and notes at the foot of the page. Nothing escapes Belgian officials. The agricultural sector is one of the most tormented, for example. In addition to the measurement of greenhouse gases for “the cultivation of agricultural raw materials in Germany on organic soils”, for example, the recent introduction of the whole larvae of Tentebrio Molytor treated with UV rays stands out for example. The delight already approved by the Commission on January 20, 2025 finally arrives in Italy, after the passage on Official Gazette. Following little inviting details: the larva flour will therefore be used “for bread and sandwiches, cakes, pasta products, products transformed based on potatoes, cheese and dairy products and composed of fruit and vegetables, intended for the population in general”. It is added to the other green delicacies already proposed by the Union: synthetic meat, grill cheeseburger and flour of migratory locust.
On the same number of Official Gazette European also find space for the derogations for the chopped chopped in the ice cream parlors. But also on the Ginseng tincture used as an additive in the feed. Of course: in these years many rules of the Union have changed, given the furious controversies. Like the one that imposed for cucumbers a maximum curvature of ten millimeters on a length of ten centimeters: an indispensable requirement before being able to reach the table. And the innocent peas were also graceful: until some time ago, to be considered such they had to boast at least three seeds in the pod. The Melons made it free: after careful reflections, it was decided that the peduncle can exceed two centimeters. Similar moratorium has been granted to artichokes: go -ahead for the stem of over ten centimeters, that continental mandarins so annoyed.
The last rethinking concerns the “monitoring of the implementation of the Union aid regime for the supply of fruit, vegetables, bananas and milk in schools”. His goodness, the Commission has decided that some mandatory information would be of dubious utility: average price for portion, information on the authorities, any conflicts of interest. Have Euroburocrats therefore decided to contain fury and supercasses? Macché. Think of the Ligurian and Tuscan fishermen, dedicated to lipstick fishing. Are they a handful? It does not matter. The one hundred and sixteen boats authorized in the two regions will have to submit to iron impositions, the subject of a regulation published last February. Meanwhile, “a proven activity of over five years is needed”. Then, the length of the boats must not exceed fourteen meters. Finally, there must be no “future increase in fishing effort”. Not to mention the impositions on the “sea passenger”: now it is strictly prohibited from the testosteronic fishing boats of Belgian nationality. Not even an eye for acquired compatriots.
