The joke’s on EU

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Series Details 11/04/96, Volume 2, Number 15
Publication Date 11/04/1996
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Date: 11/04/1996

The EU has become a great vehicle for April Fool gags.

Just blame Euro-legislation and any old joke takes on a certain credibility.

Thus it was in the Belgian newspaper L'Avenir, which told its readers on 1 April to turn their watches back one hour. The reason given was that an EU conference over the weekend had decided to cancel summertime this year. Dafter things have been suggested - and have sometimes turned out to contain a grain of truth...

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