EU Commissioners have stayed in office illegally
Telegraph
16 Novembre 2009
The European Commissioners who make our law should have stood down at the end of October, says Christopher Booker
A good many people were shocked to learn that the order to break up two of our largest banking empires, RBS and Lloyd's TSB, at great cost to shareholders and pension funds, was given by the EU's Dutch Competition Commissioner, Neelie Kroes. They might have been even more shocked to know, as Lord Willoughby de Broke explained in the Lords last week, that this unelected official exercising such enormous power over Britain's affairs is not even legally entitled to occupy her office.
On October 31 the five-year term of all the Brussels Commissioners expired. Under the Treaty they should therefore have stepped down. But because of the hiatus before the newly-ratified Constitution comes into force next month, the existing Commissioners simply decided to …
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