Eurocrats in push to pull the plug on the pinta (Daily Mail 30 January 2006)
The traditional pinta is under threat from the EU which wants to replace it with litre and half-litre bottles. Milk is one of a number of staples Brussels wants put in standardised metric packages. Bread, sugar, butter and rice are also being targeted.

No pints? Dairy me (The Sun 30 January 2006)
Meddling Brussels Eurocrats want to ban the traditional British pinta and replace it with metric sizes.

Pint-sized EU upstarts (Daily Express 30 January 2006)
We must save our pinta. The EU bureaucrats think we should quaff our milk, and beer, in litres and half litres. […]The Daily Express has news for them. In Britain, we have been happy with pints, miles an hour and feet and inches for hundreds of years – and no one is confused.

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Sunday Times 29 January 2006
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Danger of EU docs who cannot speak English
Patients’ lives are at risk because many EU doctors cannot speak English properly, it was claimed yesterday. The doctors’ failure means they may interpret symptoms incorrectly. Under EU law they do not have to be tested in language skills. Now worried experts want a change in the law.
(Daily Mirror 5 July 2005)

Doctors’ poor English ‘risks lives’
Patients’ lives are being put at risk because thousands of doctors working in Britain have a poor command of English, experts warned yesterday. Medics from outside Europe are tested on their language skills before being accepted into the profession. But under an EU labour law ruling, doctors from Europe are exempt from the tests.  
(Daily Mail 5 July 2005)
 

EU law on language tests for doctors.
While there is legislation to protect European workers from discrimination on the basis of their nationality, it is up to local health authorities and the …

Who Wants to be a Millionaire? is facing the axe because of an EU ban on competitions with prizes of more than £70,000. ITV’s flagship show…is among programmes hit by the proposed law designed to boost faltering state lotteries.
(Daily Mirror, 3 May 2003, pages 1)
Commission proposals governing the use of sales and marketing promotions by companies are currently under consideration by the European Council. During this process, the Greek presidency tabled an amendment to the Commission’s proposals, stating that:

“Individual prizes awarded in promotional games may not exceed one hundred thousand euros.” The Commission strongly opposed this change and eventually the amendment was dropped. In any case, this limit would never have applied to Millionaire, a contest based purely on skill, and therefore not a “promotional game” as defined in the proposals.

The proposals, aimed at freeing up the EU market for companies whilst ensuring consumers remain properly informed and protected, remain …

For that perfect fit try size 88 – The latest EU ruling will see British women expand beyond recognition (Daily Express, 15 March 2002, page 3)
British women are about to get a whole lot bigger thanks to European bureaucrats. Actress Kate Winslet, for example, is justly proud of her rather fetching 38-29-39 figure. She might be rather less pleased when it balloons to 97-74-99 under new Brussels regulations which require women’s clothes sizes translated from inches to centimetres.

97-74-99: Just look what the European Union has done to Kate’s vital statistics
(Daily Mail, 15 March 2002, page 1, headline)

Why women will be the new Metric Martyrs – Vital statistics become fuller figures under new EU rules (Daily Mail, 15 March 2002, page 11)
CEN, the European standards body, hopes to come up with a uniform system for clothes sizes across the EU by next year. 

Metre maids (Daily Mirror, 15 March 2002, page 6, …

As from December 1995 the European Commission is outlawing Britain’s traditional mushy peas.

Daily Telegraph, p3, 9 August 1995
Today, p2, 9 August 1995
Daily Mail, p13, 10 August 1995
The Sun, p3, 10 August 1995
Daily Mirror, p9, 10 August 1995
Daily Express, p23, 10 August 1995
Western Daily Press, 10 August 1995
Western Morning News, 10 August 1995
Evening Mail, p4, 10 August 1995
Independent on Sunday, p18, 13 August 1995
Sunday Express, p37, 13 August 1995
Sunday Times, p29, 27 August 1995
This is not entirely correct. The European Commission consulted extensively with Governments and the food industry before drafting a Directive governing colours in foodstuffs, and permitting those colours to be harmless. The Directive was subsequently adopted by the European Parliament and the Council (94/36/EC), and came into force in December 1996.

One of the Directive’s general principles is that fresh and processed vegetables may not be coloured. However certain exceptions are allowed, and were introduced into the legislation following …

The last producer of Caerphilly cheese in Caerphilly has been forced to close having been told that it was illegal to take delivery of unpasteurised milk in metal churns.

Western Mail, p1, 25 April 1995

Daily Telegraph, p5, 25 April 1995

Daily Mail, p5, 25 April 1995

Daily Star, p9, 25 April 1995

The Sun, pp6 & 9, 25 April 1995

Daily Mirror, p13, 25 April 1995

Today, p15, 25 April 1995
The transportation of milk is governed by two Directives (Council Directive 92/46/EEC and 94/71/EEC) regulating the transportation of heat-treated and pasteurised milk from the farm to the dairy or processing plant. They ensure that churns and tanks of more than four litres must be ‘hermetically sealed before and during transport by means of a watertight sealing device’.
However, these provisions only apply to heat-treated or pasteurised milk. Raw or unpasteurised milk, though covered by both Directives, may still be transported in open churns. Despite this, general practice …