Embrace the sleep-inducing power of EU legislation.
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Tonight we bring you Regulation (EEC) No 2291/74 of the Commission fixing the 1974 export levies on rice.
Text available at EUR-Lex here (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:31974R2291&qid=1764101510985).
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23 Dec 2025
Christmas special
Gather round the crackling fireplace and learn of the many merry customs tariffs on Christmas decorations.
Fireplace sounds courtesy of user visionear on Pixabay (https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/aachen-burning-fireplace-crackling-fire-soundswav-14561/).
Text of Regulation available here (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32016R2222).
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28 Nov 2025
The Cucumber Regulation
By populist demand. Rules on cucumber shapes and sizings. The world famous Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1677/88.
Regulation available: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A31988R1677&qid=1764364062932 (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A31988R1677&qid=1764364062932)
ATLAS Magazine 2019: THE EUROPEAN CUCUMBER-REGULATION: The straight and narrow ( https://gw-atlas.com/en/issues/13-normal/warum-ist-die-banane-krumm-aber-die-gurke-nicht/)
European Commission press release: The return of the bendy cucumber: 'wonky' fruit and vegetables back on sale from 1st July (https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_09_1059)
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5 Aug 2025
International Humanitarian Law
We dedicate this one especially to E.U. leaders: How do you sleep at night?
Text taken from EUR-Lex https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:52009XG1215(01) (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:52009XG1215(01))
Satire for sleepyheads.
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17 Mar 2025
Saint Patrick's Day Special
Satire for sleepyheads.
Aoir do chodlatáin.
Legal notice available at https://european-union.europa.eu/legal-notice_ga (https://european-union.europa.eu/legal-notice_ga)
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22 Feb 2025
I'll Bring EU Flowers (In the Pouring Rain)
DG SLEEP makes a colourful return to usher in a sleepy spring.
Text taken from EUR-LEX: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:31968R0316 (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:31968R0316)
Satire for sleepyheads.
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10 Oct 2024
Mower Power to You
Drift away as the Night Elves revisit a Commission Directive that established the permissible sound power levels of lawnmowers.
Text taken from Eur-Lex: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A31987L0252&qid=1728592066652 (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A31987L0252&qid=1728592066652)
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27 Sept 2024
Ode to Jam
The Council kicks out the jams in this sweet Directive from 2001.
Text from Eur-Lex: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2001/113/oj (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2001/113/oj)
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15 Sept 2024
Good Sport
Tonight, the night-elves of DG SLEEP tackle Council conclusions on maximising the role of grassroots sport in developing transversal skills, especially among young people.
Text taken from Eur-Lex: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A52015XG0527%2802%29&qid=1719518193420 (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A52015XG0527%2802%29&qid=1719518193420)
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Satire for sleepyheads.
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9 Jul 2024
Could EU be loved: Catnap special
At your desk or in your cat tree. Take a break where you can get it with the Catnap Special of DG Sleep.
Text taken from Eur-Lex, where you'll find a bonus photo of the cat-tree psspsspss: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3A32014R0350 (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3A32014R0350)
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24 Jun 2024
Working My Way Back to EU
Nod off while the night-elves of DG Sleep take you back to 2006 and EU Decision No 1672/2006/EC establishing a Community Programme for Employment and Social Solidarity — Progress
Text is from Eur-Lex: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32006D1672&qid=1719258368775 (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32006D1672&qid=1719258368775)
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21 Jun 2024
Oh those summer nights
Drift away on the summer solstice while the night-elves of DG Sleep read to you a Sleepy Summertime Directive from 2001.
Text is from Eur-Lex. Available here: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:32000L0084 (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:32000L0084)
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17 Jun 2024
Plenty More Fish in the Sea
Fall asleep while DG Sleep reads to you the 1966 text establishing the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas.
Text sourced from Eur-Lex: Available here: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A21986A0618%2801%29&qid=1718664100821 (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A21986A0618%2801%29&qid=1718664100821)
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