It's _better_ for the EU to define these things. If the EU hasn't done it centrally, member states would be doing it individually. This way:
1) You get a single definition of cucumber class 2C for every country, rather than a bunch of definitions that make trade more complex
2) It's (num_countries_in_EU) times cheaper to do it once than to do it seperately for every single country.
It has become quite clear to me that anyone who brings up the shape of bananas or cucumbers in the EU is either just spreading FUD because they've decided they're against the EU for other reasons, or believes anything the papers tell them without applying critical thinking to the matter.
1) You get a single definition of cucumber class 2C for every country, rather than a bunch of definitions that make trade more complex 2) It's (num_countries_in_EU) times cheaper to do it once than to do it seperately for every single country.
It has become quite clear to me that anyone who brings up the shape of bananas or cucumbers in the EU is either just spreading FUD because they've decided they're against the EU for other reasons, or believes anything the papers tell them without applying critical thinking to the matter.