(Belated) October 8th Current Event
EUObserver
We've learned in class that the power of the EU has it's limits over national security and state politics, but here do we see it's authority over social issues. Belgium officials (EU execs.) are developing a bill proposal to ban smoking in public places across the continent for the sake of health. This would be a major milestone in the fight against smoking and its side effects.
The U.S. has similar bans on the state levels, but does not have the power to make it a national law. In they pull through, the EU would prove more powerful in its arena than the U.S. govt, which cannot interfere with its' federal states' reserved powers (under which smoking laws fall).
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