I mentioned this once before in another thread about the shenanigins of our Spanish colleagues but got no response or comments in reply.
It seems to me that we have a huge amount of European legislation aimed at achieving a common air traffic service across the region. Amongst other things, the Single European Sky regulations require services to be provided in a safe manner, there has to be a National Supervisory Authority to make sure that the rules are being followed and the European Commission and/or the European Aviation Safety Agency has some sort of responsibility to make sure that the States are ensuring that the NSAs are doing their jobs properly. And yet we have numerous reports - many of which seem to be fully substantiated as far as one can tell - and nothing seems to be happening on the part of all these regulators to deal with the 'problems' in Spain.
A dispute between employees and employer - as has been well documented here and elsewhere - is largely an internal national issue but there remains the question of who is taking any action to prevent the apparently common behaviour of many Spanish controllers affecting the safety of all those on board aircraft in their airspace.
Perhaps the Commission/EASA is working hard, but quietly in the background...but having little effect. Alternatively, all of the work, effort and expense that has gone into the Single European Sky for the past 10 years or so has been a sham, a complete waste of time and money and suggests that the assurance that we are supposed to gain by having expert regulators supervising the industry has no credibility whatsoever!
Does anyone know what the massed regulators of Europe are doing to deal with these problems? Or do they only like doing the bit where they write unnecessarily onerous and complicated rules....