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TFA mentions "european governments" but this legislation is proposed by a bunch of european members of parliament who in no way represent any governments and mu
by genericacct 10mo ago
TFA mentions "european governments" but this legislation is proposed by a bunch of european members of parliament who in no way represent any governments and much less the commission or the union. In short it tries to depict a group of old farts as an overreaching snooping authority.
I wonder who could have a vested interest in depicting the EU as a repressive regime...
- jonkoops 10mo agoThis legislation is not proposed by members of parliament, only the commission can draft legislation, the parliament can only approve it.
- WinstonSmith84 10mo ago> this legislation is proposed by a bunch of european members of parliament who in no way represent any governments and much less the commission Well, here is the guy from where that comes from, the minister of justice of Denmark. He certainly represents a good part of Denmark, even though he may be irrelevant to any other EU country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hummelgaard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hummelgaard
- harvey9 10mo agoAre you saying that a neutral observer would not see this as repressive?
- vidarh 10mo agoHowever the European Council consists of the heads of state / government of EU member states, not MEP's.