UK faces 47 lawsuits for breaching EU's rules: Britain is being persued over items ranging from tractors to toys and garlic

UK faces 47 lawsuits for breaching EU's rules: Britain is being persued over items ranging from tractors to toys and garlic | Mail Online:
 "And UKIP leader Nigel Farage said: 'What have we sunk to when we cannot even make a minor decision about how we live our lives, without being subject to a European bureaucrat or judge?

‘You only have to look at the list of proceedings to understand that the EU now regulates and controls every single, little aspect of our lives.’

A Foreign Office spokesman said Britain has fewer so-called open infringements than other countries and supported the ‘timely and consistent’ application of EU law across the union.

It comes as Boris Johnson has said the key question the government will have to answer is ‘what is the point of the EU?’