On 8/5/2013 12:45 PM, Hils wrote:

There was enough of an outcry to persuade the government to drop the
proposal, and many of the media tried to blame it all on the European
Union, but the idea could only have come from trade associations
lobbying politicians.

Speaking of the European Union...the common view over here is that they
seem to have one foot in the grave and the other foot on a banana peel.
What are your views on the chance of the EU falling apart? Will the
PIIGS* cause its ultimate demise?

(* Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Spain)