EU Referendum (Free subscription) | 25/03/2008
It's like old times, reading in The Daily Telegaph a classic EU "red tape folly" story which used to be the fare of the Booker column – and even a weekly column in The Daily Mail before we got fired. Anyhow, this one is about an outfit called Lurgashall Winery near Petworth, in West Sussex which has fallen foul of a new EU directive . This is grandly entitled Directive 2007/45/EC of 5 September 2007,...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 25/03/2008
An award-winning English fruit wine maker whose customers include royal palaces and the National Trust has been landed with a bill for £30,000 after the European Union ruled that he was using the wrong sized bottles.
If Sam Tarran Was In Charge (Free subscription) | 26/03/2008
Richard North presents us with a story from the Daily Telegraph about an "award-winning English fruit wine maker whose customers include royal palaces and the National Trust", who, because of EU red tape, is " facing a bill of £30,000, having to carry the cost of changing the bottling, the labels, machinery, boxes and maybe the corks as well." More at EU Referendum and the Telegraph . If Sam Tarran...
