Re: [Patents] EU Commission: Competitive and efficient European enterprises

[Simo Sorce <simo.sorce@xsec.it>]

On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 17:12, Hartmut Pilch wrote:
> Recently, the german and austrian parliaments have ratified EuroDMCA, and
> some politicians, particularly from the conservative camp, said that this
> was overdue, because it had been decided by EU & WIPO long ago.

Sadly Italy has recently ratified EUCD too.

> Even those who opposed the text (such as
> austrian socialists) did not really seem to know what was at stake and
> appeared as if they were trying to sneak in some means of circumvention.
> It appears we are in an era where legislators are willingly blindfolded by
> obscuring language.

I feel like legislators have simply stopped to do their work and just
pass whatever active organizations ask them to vote if there is no
opposition. They simply stopped to be an active part of the process, and
react only when strongly questioned :-(

Simo.

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