A new EC regulation concerning restrictions on the use of personal details by organisations and companies who use those details on-line comes into force on May 25th.
https://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2016/may/data-protection...
It would seem that we are, at long last, being given more power as individuals to protect all our personal details on line.
The obvious advantage is putting an end to the endless piles of junk mail that infests our mail boxes.
I suggest you read it. One way or the other it is going to impact EC citizens including the UK both before and after Brexit. Non EC countries will also be affected to some degree as far as I understand.
I will refuse every attempt to solicit my personal details unless the offer includes Love, Passion, Romance, Lust and untied gifts of money.
On a different note. I haven't posted any new writing on here for a few weeks but I have not been idle. The next Volume of Footprints in the Sea is over a half complete and a new novel length anthology containing two novellas and a short story will be ready very shortly.
Please send your requests for my personal details and the accompanying unsolicited, no strings attached, bankers draughts to my email box, meanwhile,
Love and Best Wishes,
Frances.£££$$$, oops sorry, I meant to XXX.
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EC???
What are you talking about?
It's the European Commission
the political arm of the European Union responsible for legislation for adoption by the Parliament and the Council that protect the interests of the EU and its citizens on issues that can't be dealt with effectively at national level;
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EC
Isn't that the European community? Formerly the the EEC= European Economic Community.
Monique S
EC?
The EU stopped being a community when (sorry to say it) France and Germany deemed that Political Union was more important than a the Economic Community.
Originally, six nations got together to form the Common Market. Free trade and all that.
Somehow back in the time of Khol and Mitterand the whole thing became more about Political Union than Trade and Economic Cooperation.
No country went to the electorate and asked 'Do you want Political Union' etc etc etc.
Just one of the reason why the UK voted to leave(not by me). OTOH, it will make Political Union all the more likely without the UK's veto to stop it.
The idea of the Eurocrats is one parliament (in Brussels). National Parliaments will be relegated to toothless talking shops with little or no power. Budgets and Taxation will be decided by those in Brussels.
Just my 2euros of worthless opinion and as such can be completely ignored.
Samantha
Nice spelling error.
Khol for Kohl? The bugger was so ugly no khol would have helped. And corrupt, too, he could not stand someone with a personality either, one of the reasons he kicked out the only sane person in his cabinet early, his labour minister, Norbert Blüm.
He wanted to become the chancellor of Europe. That did badly backfire, though.
Monique S
Yet it's considered crazy to believe some...
aim for a one world govt., likely operated in the manner you just describe. I would've had no problem if the EU was a common set of labor standards when practicing trade among other European countries and for export and nothing more. Having a common currency under the guise of simplicity is so that one more barrier towards Western European factories relocating to the former Soviet bloc countries is eliminated. As for Britain leaving the EU some forget that it isn't just Marine LePen supporting France leaving the EU but Melachon from the left as well(for what it's worth I think Melachon would've won against Macron and LePen). Oh and I believe Corbin was on the WRONG side of history opposing Brexit as there are plenty of arguments for the center and the left to apply for Brexit.
Brexiteers rave about Westminster
The mother of all Parliaments and all that stuff. Personally, I only have to see Prime Minister’s Question Time to compare them with a bunch of chimpanzees. Give me the measured debate of the EU (sorry, European Union), anytime to see grown ups running a parliament.
Considered Debate?
Ha-ha. Not when a certain MEP, one N Farage is taking part.
If you really want to see measured debate then the place to go is ironically, the UK's House of Lords. Attending a session of this chamber is an education it debate and understanding of the subject. Far less political rhetoric.
I've had the honour of photographing the chamber from the floor.
Samantha
But to be fair...
...UKIP are the only exceptions bringing the "British" method of debate into the European Parliament.
And I totally agree about the high quality of debate in the House of Lords, the chamber which is not democratically elected.