Dave Keating European Voice
Around 40% of flights at France's main airports have been cancelled today (11 June) as air traffic controllers walk off the job in protest of measures announced this afternoon by Siim Kallas, European transport commissioner, to force European Union countries to combine their national airspaces.
Under legislation passed in 2004, member states were supposed to complete the combination of Europe's 27 national airspaces into nine functional blocs by December 2012, however resistance from national air traffic authorities and unions have meant that not a single bloc has yet been created.
The Commission believes the original legislation was too weak and has today proposed to revise it to give it more teeth. The revised legislation would confer more powers on Eurocontrol, the international organisation that monitors European air-traffic control. It would also set stricter targets, and give the Commission the mandate to pursue infringement action against member states that do not co-operate.
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hmmm17 Jun 2013 21:53
please check out the record of slimy siim as a commie, estonian bank president, estonian politician and eu bagman ... and then be happy when he becomes the next unelected estonian president
named names14 Jun 2013 09:32
Estonian diplomats can be called names such as slimeball or accused of being puppets for socialism and there won't be any censorship of the comments.
YET when comments are made about a certain individual TK (with a Rene Levesque comb-over) making ALL the photo-ops. The posts get deleted. Will this be one of those ????
Mikita11 Jun 2013 11:38
Let us not forget that Kallas is but a puppet, whose strings are pulled by others. Alas, Estonia's history is rich with the likes of Kallas, who abused - still abuse - the principle of democratic support and chose to embrace the darkness of bilderbergness und so weide.
Eestlased, once, believed in their elected leaders. No longer.
The Court is Crimson, also the colour of socialism, where merit holds no role, an connections rule. Kallas and so many others are filthy rich only because they sold their souls.
Thankfully, many abroad still know what eestlus, kristlus, usk ja ausus is all about. There still remains hope.
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