EU Telecoms Package: Current status…

September 5, 2008 in censorship, democracy, personal, privacy by Daniel Nyström | 2 comments

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A lot of good progress has been made in the European Parlament in this issue.

First off, it seems like the work of the MEPs Fjellner and Hökmark has paid off.

The largest group in the parliament, the EPP-ED (rightwing), has decided to vote NO to the Telecoms Package the media report which suggest the banning of anonymous blogging!

But as HAX notes (swedish link), the fight is not over and we now need to contact the MEPs that are a part of the ALDE-, Green- and InDem-group in order to show them our engagement in this issue. See my previous posts for details.

This is unique and shows that the blogosphere and citizen engagement is a force to be reckoned with. You as a citizen of Europe can change the direction that we are headed!

I’ve also started getting responses from our Swedish MEPs and I’m posting them without modification below:


Subject: RE: Stoppa Telecom Paketet !
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 08:30:01 +0200
From: SEGELSTRÖM Inger
To:

Hej Daniel
TAck för mail och synpunkter
Vi ska votera nästa plenum
JAg mailar vidare till Robert som är den hos oss som bevakar förslagen,för
svar
Mvh
Inger S
Inger Segelström
Europaparlamentariker (s)
Delegationsledare för de svenska socialdemokraterna
Vice ordförande PES Women

Telefon till Brysselkontoret +32 2 2845199
Mobil: +46 70 312 40 03
E-mail: inger.segelstrom@europarl.europa.eu
Hemsida: www.sap.se/eu

Subject: RE: Stoppa Telecom Paketet !
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 08:33:34 +0200
From: “HOLM Jens”
To:

Hej Daniel
Jag instämmer fullt ut i din kritik. Vänsterpartiet är motståndare till
Telekompaketet. Se bla Eva-Britts pressmeddelande:

http://www.vguengl.org/showPage.php?ID=1577

mvh jens (v)

Subject: RE: Stoppa Telecom Paketet !
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 09:46:33 +0200
From: GOUDIN Hélène
To:

Hej,

Tack för ditt brev och dess information!
Jag är av princip mot integritetskränkande åtgärder och kommer därför
inte att stödja förslaget.

Med vänlig hälsning,

Hélène Goudin
EU- parlamentariker
vice- ordförande Junilistan

Mobil: +46 703 91 75 26
Bryssel: +32 2 284 56 74
Strasbourg: +33 3 881 756 74

E-post: helene.goudin@junilistan.se
helene.goudin@europarl.europa.eu
helene.goudin@telia.com

www.junilistan.se

Subject: RE: Stoppa Telecom Paketet !
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 10:35:01 +0200
From: “FALK Roger”
To:

Hej Daniel!

Eva-Britt bad mig skicka info om vad hon gjort i ärendet och hälsa till dig.

Pressmeddelande: http://www.vguengl.org/showPage.php?ID=1577

Tal i parlamentet: http://www.vguengl.org/showPage.php?ID=1579

Med vänlig hälsning
Roger Falk

Press officer for Eva-Britt Svensson and Jens Holm
GUE/NGL Group, European Parliament
Phone +32 2 283 75 63
Mobile: +32 473 80 45 79
roger.falk@europarl.europa.eu
www.vguengl.org

In short, the answers that I’ve recieved paints the picture of resistance and hesitation from our Swedish representatives.

Inger Segelström (inger.segelstrom@europarl.europa.eu) seems to be the one that’s hesitating but she has in Swedish media communicated that she at least will try to remove the registration of bloggers from the package. However, there is not a word of the “three-strikes” and commercially controlled internet disconnections.

We need to keep this up until the vote, so if you have not sent your concerns to the MEPs do so now!

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  1. Henrik Alexandersson’s avatar

    Henrik Alexandersson on September 5, 2008 at 12:26 pm

    You have mixed two things up. It is easy to do, as ther is so much going on right now.

    It is the report on media concentration – including regulating bloggers and taxing social media that might be stopped. This is not a part of the telecoms package.

    When it coms to the telecoms package, the fight is still on. The troublesome parts are filtering of the internet, banning people from using the internet and restrictions of content.

    Here we still have to fight.

  2. Daniel Nyström’s avatar

    Daniel Nyström on September 5, 2008 at 4:08 pm

    Crap, with a capital C ;) hehe… Going to make a littel follow-up with corrections later on tonight …