Council trying to derail Parliament's Second Reading

Council trying to derail Parliament's Second Reading: "Hartmut Pilch of FFII expects: 'The disccourse of many Committee members will then be strongly influenced by 'political' considerations, with 'realism' and 'compromise' being the buzzwords and the achievement of a clear and adequate law becoming a secondary objective at best.'

In the concluding conversation with EPP shadow rapporteur Piia-Noora Kauppi MEP at the FFII's conference on Wednesday, Pilch said the Council is hastily meeting because, as realists, they are afraid of the enormous force of a clear counter-position from the European Parliament, and therefore are trying to derail the process. 'Realistically speaking, truth is a strong weapon. So let's use it', Pilch concluded."

"The negotiations are secret, and usually the positions of individual countries are not published."

My commentary: This process shows that the politicians in the EU is caught in a undemocratic game. The more secret they can negotiate, the better for the multinationals, and it seems that the EU-politicians aims to favour the multinationals instead of trusting the creativity and entrepeneurship of their own people. It also shows that the EU-politicians have locked in a position that economic growth in EU can only be achieved by hindering the third world to develop into the knowledge society. So, the 250 year old tradition with protectionism and imperialism continues into the new information society. This is a coward strategy instead of using the possibility ICT gives, to let the whole globe prosper in economic growth in an ecological friendly way. This strategy seems to thrive well in the EU system, I am sorry to say after 7 year with enthusiastic support to EU. When it comes to the issues that the strategists in EU really think it is important, the democracy is largely removed from the arena, while "unimportant" issues is given democratic treatment. I DO NOT LIKE IT!