The prejudice about EU’s clamping has been met-again, says Viktor Barth-Kron.
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Vegetarian sausages and burgers should no longer get hot sausages and burgers. It considers the European Parliament, which voted through a Proposal on meat requirements on Wednesday.
The decision has received both the Center and the Environment Party, which (now) belongs to Sweden’s most EU-Entusiastic movements, to go to the ceiling.
“Rurse,” thinks the parliamentarian Emma Wiesner (C).
“Is it a bite EU satire?” Wonder Pär Holmgren (Mp) angry.
But it is not. Not this time either, you can add.
The pattern is known. Each time something clumsy and preferably symbol-political proposal toured through the Brussels Materials decision labeters, the voices from EU friends are heard: It is unfortunate to prejudice If the European cooperation is fulfilled! It benefits EU-critical populists and their myth spread.
Which of course raises a question: If a prejudice is fulfilled time and time again, is it really a prejudice ..?
In any case. The more everyday question in this context is what the vegetarian and increasingly popular food should now be called, if the proposal is looking all the way out in actual legislation.
Names such as “soy pole” (for sausages, we guess) and “vegetable plague” (burgers) can now be relevant, claims SvD.
It sounds neither good nor particularly viable in the vernacular. Here, EU friends need to try to recover the initiative and find something with positive connotations, especially for the green voters who are the main target group of the products.
Why not “Brussels Capshot” and “Strasburgers” respectively?
Viktor Barth-Kron is a political commentator at Expressen.
