Re: Makes sense
I would suggest you to read the Treaty of Rome text, but I'm afraid there's no official English version...
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex:11957E/TXT
Anyway, art. 3(h) explicitly stated the converging of national legislation as necessary to make the common market work.
You can read a summary here:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=LEGISSUM:xy0023&from=EN
Again, it is true despite the treaty aims things didn't go quick as they should have, and UK gave a big boost in the 1980s achieving it, but the ideas were already there in 1958, Ms Thatcher just built on it.
In turn now UK complained about the EU regulations and wanted to regain control....
Biting the hand that feeds IT
