This is just classic…..

A group of French cleaning ladies who organised a car-sharing scheme to get to work are being taken to court by a coach company which accuses them of “an act of unfair and parasitical competition”.

The women, who live in Moselle and work five days a week at EU offices in Luxembourg, are being taken to court by Transports Schiocchet Excursions, which runs a service along the route. It wants the women to be fined and their cars confiscated.
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“Using our cars is quicker and at least twice as cheap. And on the bus we didn’t have the right to eat or even to speak,” said Martine Bourguignon. Odette Friedmann added: “In the evening instead of coming to get us at 9.30pm the bus would arrive at 10.30pm. If you made any comment to the driver you’d get a mouthful of abuse.”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1525590,00.html

If we left technological progress to the Europeans we’d still be using the telegraph because the morse-code keyist’s union would have blocked the government from approving the telephone. And these people want more say in how the Internet is run? I think not.