Post on 06-Jan-2017
Top four EU fails
1. Privacy protections weakened
2. Mass surveillance
3. Policy-based evidence-making
4. Oettinger, or where are the experts?
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1. Bad architectureaka EU institutions
2. Bug in the OSaka legislative processes
3. Bad RAM aka lack of institutional memory
4. Bad devicesaka lobbyists & eurocrats
5. DoS attacks aka repeated tabling of the same bad proposals
The reasons...
No Trias Politica
● European Parliament cannot initiate legislation
● Council of Ministers instead of Council of Parliaments
● Members of Commission or Council cannot be sent home
● Citizens have limited access to Court of Justice
We cannot have a more democratic European Union
without Member State governments ceding power to either national parliaments or the European Parliament
Failure of 4th Estate
● BXL coverage by national media after the fact
● Little presence of national media in BXL
● Everything in BXL seems designed to bore to death
● Too few civil servants (way less than typical member state govs)
ACTA zombies:Net Neutrality - Commission
proposal
Reasonable traffic management measures shall be (...) necessary to:
"implement a legislative provision or a court order, or prevent or impede serious crimes"
"In many instances activism is only needed because of those complacent people who fail to exercise their
citizenship." - Gabrielle Coleman
First stage
GET INFORMED
If the media are failing us, we can bypass the media. We're from the internet, and the internet is about bypassing gatekeepers.
Second Stage
● Contact your MEPs● Ask your MEPs about relevant dossiers
● Write and maintain code that helps others (ParlTrack, Memopol, Pippi Longstrings)
We are short of people, had to let go of important dossiers about digital signatures, trade secrets,
travel surveillance
We are short of knowledge, being involved in the BXL bubble without technical backing is hard
Participate