Interesting...
There's complaint within Europe about EU Commissioners being unelected by the people; they're appointed by each nation, one per nation.
Unlike the European Parliament, where MEPs are similar to Representatives; elected and apportioned by population.
The lack of election of the Commissioners has always been portrayed in the media as a bad thing.
While Buffalo is certainly no London England
You might be surprised to check out the rainfall in London - about 600mm over the year, which is 23in.
He was forced to so as it was the end of a 5 year term. As will Brown have to do by 2010.
And as Callaghan did in 1979 having become PM mid term in 1976.
Brown isn't the first mid-term change, and he won't be the last. It's happened many many times in the past, and I'm sure will happen again in the future.
I'm no fan of him; attack Brown for being an idiot sure, but claiming he has no mandate is completely unprecedented.
You can travel without any identification whatsoever between all Schengen countries. That includes the entire EU (maybe except the two newest memebers and they're also set to join), Iceland, Norway and Switzerland.
Not the entire EU. In addition to the two newest members - Bulgaria & Romania - the UK and Ireland are part of the EU but are not full members of Schengen.
It's not a great idea to travel without any ID though - the border controls can be temporarily reintroduced, usually done during football championships.
John Major?
Yeah, another voice here to noticing the flicker on LED tail lamps.
Mostly notice when I glance down at the speed I'm doing, move my gaze back up and the momentary "something's not right" makes me think the car infront's braking.
Not the best situation really. I've had to start tuning myself to not jumping to the brake pedal, and I know that's going to cause a major issue sometime in the future.
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