Good news from the European Parliament

by Kosmopolit in EU politics

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Just a short update on two issues that have also been discussed on this blog: 1. What happened with the “Telecoms Package” (that I have mentioned here and here)? It seems that most of the worrying amendments regarding copyright issues (especially the three strikes approach) were not adopted by the European Parliament. A detailed analysis [...]

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The first reading of the so-called Telecoms Package will take place this Wednesday at 11h30am in the European Parliament. The main problem with the directive is the following: Originally the initiative aimed at regulating the market of  telecommunication companies but, due to some intense lobbying by some big media companies,  it now also contains proposals [...]

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via netzpolitik I came across of some interesting details about the reform of the “European law on electronic communications” ( the so called “Telecoms Package”) which will be debated in the European Parliament next week (7 July). La Quadrature du Net / Squaring the Net, a European NGO initiative, released a press release that criticises [...]

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