{"id":416,"date":"2004-05-03T21:51:55","date_gmt":"2004-05-03T21:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"tag:owlfish.com,2004:colinweblog.20040503215155"},"modified":"2004-09-23T14:48:02","modified_gmt":"2004-09-23T14:48:02","slug":"03052004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/2004\/05\/03052004\/","title":{"rendered":"Expanding fish."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Idle Words has an amusing and informative post about visiting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idlewords.com\/2004\/05\/poland_joins_the_european_union.htm\">Poland on the eve of join the EU<\/a>.  An interesting theme develops towards the end of the post:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Not only did I now have both an American and a European passport, meaning I could have any Russian bride in the catalog, but it also meant that this silly but deeply beloved country was here for good, was here to stay.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This chimes well with a BBC article that tries to explain the significance of EU expansion in terms of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/europe\/3673227.stm\">restoring normality to Eastern Europe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the Tories are promising to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/3668623.stm>scrap 25% of EU regulations<\/a>, and improve the lot of the British fishing industry by <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/3678687.stm\">withdrawing form the Common Fisheries Policy<\/a>.  This last move is intended to combat falling fish stocks and, simultaneously, increase the amount of fish being caught.<\/p>\n<p>Exactly which 25% of EU regulations are deemed harmful, or how the Tories expect to retain membership of the common market after ditching a quarter of the rules that define it, is left as an exercise for the voter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Idle Words has an amusing and informative post about visiting Poland on the eve of join the EU. An interesting theme develops towards the end of the post: Not only did I now have both an American and a European passport, meaning I could have any Russian bride in the catalog, but it also meant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}