EUObserver The Dutch Presidency of the EU is exerting pressure on GENVAL to approve a very restrictive draft to be proposed to the Council

Latest news are that the vote at IMCO, originally scheduled for late June, has been postponed to July. That can be both good and bad for us all.

Good, because it would allow almost all key votes to take place under the supposedly pro-gun Slovakian Presidency − to step in by July 1st.

Bad, because June is also the month when the United Kingdom will vote on whether to stay in the EU or to leave.

Should the UK decide to leave the European Union, the European institutions − including the anti-gun Commission − would be definitely weakened as a whole, but on the other hand rapporteur Vicky Ford could find herself into an unpleasant situation.



Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker already vowed to "make the UK's life a misery" should the Country decide to leave the EU − and that could be done by kicking British figures from their important positions in all branches of the European institutions. Vicky Ford could thus be removed from her position as the rapporteur for the proposal, and replaced with a more anti-gun MEP.