EU press releases regurgitated

On Sunday the Independent reported that the EU is "considering" a £1bn fund to set up plants to use greenhouse gas to help recover North Sea oil, which, the report says, could extend their productive life by 50 years and "add £60bn to UK coffers".

If it were commercially viable, the oil companies would be doing it already. Sounds like a subsidy to me. 

The Sunday Times (£) reported that UK railway companies may face an investigation by the European Commission over the dumping of lavatory waste on the tracks and in railway stations.

Yeah well - that's a door the Eurocrats could not push open if ours were a competently governed country.

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