Numerous of amendments regarding the Telecom Package will be examined by the European Parliament this 24 September.
The number of amendments, the complexity of the texts, and the fact that some of those amendments have not been published before, may harms to a real european democratic debate.
The Odebi Ligue denounces the opacity of a system which is similar to the one who exists in France, and where the government is negotiating in the dark a project of “Graduated Response” for many months with industry players.
Furthermore, the Ligue is afraid that, except for the Green and GUE groups, the votes would have been secretly negotiated before.
Odebi would like the public and deputies to pay attention to the following three amendments : 133, 138, 166. Those amendments simply reaffirm fundamental rights of the citizens in the European law like, they shall not suffer of mass surveillance or any attempts to their privacy, to their freedom of speech and information, or to their right to due process.
Let us be clear : either MEPs will vote these amendments guaranteeing the fundamental rights of European citizens, either they will vote against it. In the last case, they would fully illustrate the vision the vision of Europe that numerous citizens have : ie the vision of a kind of big supermarket where lobbies negotiate laws dedicated to defend their own economic interests in total violation of the fundamental rights of citizens, and with the complicity of number of politicians.
Such behavior of collaboration with the business lobbies are like a stop point to the European construction.
Odebi, co-organizer of the International Day of Action “Freedom not Fear” planed on October 11, calls on all participating organizations to pay particular attention to the vote of these amendments, and calls on all organizations of European countries who are not yet participating to “Freedom Not Fear” movement to join the international mobilization in order to get a better fight against attacks that the Internet and fundamental rights are suffering today.
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La Ligue Odebi
http://www.odebi.org
[1]Freedom not fear France: http://www.HumanRights21.org
[2]Freedom not fear international: http://www.freedom-not-fear.eu

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