22/02/2005 (Agence Europe) - Robert Goebbels MEP (Luxembourg socialist) asked the European Commission about what draft directive it intended to present for a blanket ban on smoking in certain public places, such as bars and restaurants. Goebbels pointed out that he had never been a smoker and asked how such a Community initiative could be justified with regard to subidiarity and proportionality principles. The MEP said, “supposing that the legislator of one or other Member States is not...