Today's Irish Times tells us that shopping online will be made easier thanks to "new measures to be announced by the EU Commission next week". Great. I like shopping online. Unfortunately, thanks to the Irish government's WEEE we can't buy a Wii (or anything electrical) online from outside Ireland. Protectionism by any other name would smell … you know where I'm going. Always the good Europeans, except when it doesn't suit us.
{And, don't tell me that non-Irish online retailers could become a registered retailer. Our market is too small for retailers to jump through all those hoops.}
