No politicians, please

摘要

Philippe Louis-Dreyfus, who chairs the European shipowners' organisation, has had some bright ideas in his time and his proposal to endow the European Maritime Safety Agency with control over vessel casualty incidents is likely to be met with some resistance. His reasoning is sound - European governments tend to react to casualties with more than one eye on their voters. These decisions, he explained, have been shown to be both harmful and counterproductive.