Oh Europo!
April 11th, 2008, Tomasz RychlickiCultural industries in Europe on cultural industries in Europe, (A6-0063/2008). Report: Guy Bono (PES, FR). Report adopted by 586 votes in favour to 36 against, with amendments.
Calls on the Commission and the Member States to recognise that the Internet is a vast platform for cultural expression, access to knowledge, and democratic participation in European creativity, bringing generations together through the information society; calls on the Commission and the Member States, therefore, to avoid adopting measures conflicting with civil liberties and human rights and with the principles of proportionality, effectiveness and dissuasiveness, such as the interruption of Internet access.
Szczegóły na stronie www.openrightsgroup.org. Polecam także stronę www.europarl.europa.eu.
Almost 15,000 lobbyists in Brussels may face new working practices after the Parliament’s Constitutional Affairs Committee backed a report which calls on them to disclose their fees and have their names on a mandatory public list. The author of the report - Finnish MEP Alexander Stubb (EPP-ED) - praised lobbyists saying “policy making would be very poor without their contribution”. The full parliament will vote on the report on 8 May. This focus looks at the issues raised by the Stubb report.