A revised European Bathing Water Directive which is due to come into force in
2015 will require water to be twice as clean to achieve the highest standard – a
rating of Excellent.
Tourism bosses fear that the new rules could have a big impact on the
communities around any beaches that fail to make the grade. They are calling for a more flexible approach that would allow them to provide daily updates on the water quality meaning that they would only have to close the beaches to bathers on those days when the pollution reaches hazardous levels. Malcolm Bell, the head of Visit Cornwall, said: “We are going to face a challenge to explain to people that things have not got worse – it is just that the hurdle has got higher. “If a beach is on the new borderline, it doesn’t mean it will be borderline all the time. “Sometimes it will be beautiful and other times there will be problems, so we want to be able to put up signs on those incidents but be able to take them down when it is more than safe.” Jonathan Ponting, principal environment planning officer at the Environment Agency, said work was under way to improve the water quality in those areas at risk. He said: “The vast majority of our beaches pass the current standards and they have seen a massive improvement over the past 20 years, but we are moving to a system that uses much tighter standards than the current ones that we report to. “Tourism is a massive part of our economy in some of these areas and there is no doubt that if some of these beaches do have signs advising against bathing it could be damaging for the economies in those areas. “The Environment Agency has been working to get as many of those beaches as possible to meet those standards.” Temperatures are expected to rise tomorrow to just shy of the hottest seen this year, with the South East expected to get up to 73.4F (23C), about the same as is forecast for the south of France.
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Being German myself, I wished sometimes that more of my compatriots knew that Germany is since her foundation (1871) in a segi-hegimonial position which is very dangerous and always will be. But neither is that discussed in public nor is that problem realized at all by most Germans. What to do with Germany is THE big European question (no, I'm no narcissist). Several "answers" to that question (Bismarck, Hitler, 2 German states) proved to be wrong. What now? Either Germany rules completely (which never will happen), or Germany agrees to be a member in a political union (which will not happen in the near future as well, because there is no majority in the population for it).
Even IF most Germans agreed to be part of the United States of Europe, which other countries will join? Nearly none, I think. Because most states are not ready for it yet. Consequence: Germany's half-hegemony in full swing, causing France to seek secret deals with Spain, Italy etc. while playing "best buddie" towards Germany. Germany meanwhile looks for support in the UK, the Netherlands etc. So within the EU there are now ever-changing alliances. The good thing is that because of the EU the protagonists regularly meet and talk, whereas in previous times often a declaration of war came in.
If the EU broke up, the member states would go back to having their own currencies and would almost certainly seek to maintain the positives of the EU (free trade and movement) without the negatives (unelected pettifogging bureaucracy for the most part). There is no need for chaos, and war is vanishingly unlikely.
There has for some time now been widespread antipathy to the EU among the various peoples of Europe, however much the Europhiles have sought to ignore or downplay it. The EU simply is not popular, not even among the wealthy countries and certainly not among the basket case economies like Greece, Spain and Cyprus. People don't like what is already there.
If the EU ignores that popuar sentiment, and past history suggests it will try to do so, and persists with trying to build an even more intrusive and controlling European state, then the chances of war - civil war in the EU - are vastly higher.
The EU and its predecessors have had no significant role in stopping European war after 1945. The thing that did that was the division of Europe into two heavily armed camps staring at each other across the Inner German Border.
German money, germany bailing out everyone
Pull the other one.
It is German PRIVATE banks that have the heaviest liabilities in the PRIVATE banks of the PIIGS.
The German taxpayer is bailing out it's own banks.
Why do you think the British put up 7 billion to bail out Irish banks.
Might have something to do with the Liabilities of over £200 billion that existed at the time of the bailout.
The British/Irish/German taxpayer gets screwed
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703712504576240572598963328.html
-Headline says it all.
Public expenditure excess leads to deficits meaning the PIIGS cannot tell the private banks where to go so they have to march to the tune of Merkel.
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