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EU in action: Bottle cap retainers

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> This was just a simple case of bureaucratic corruption. Someone with good political connections had a stake in a company that created this kind of bottle caps but nobody wanted to buy them. So they had a little talk with the politician friends, and lo and behold, suddenly it's mandatory to have these caps. And it takes at least a few months for manufacturers to adapt their own cap design, so for a few months everyone had to buy from that one company.
You could even tell easily because initially all caps had the same design, but now there's a different designed cap for many different brands as they've created their own.

Sounds likely.

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