Posted by xyzal 9/11/2025
8/27=0.296 (29.6%), and I thought it has to be 35% (65% supporters to pass)
(1) 55% of countries [15 atm] (2) representing 65% of EU population.
If one of the above is not met, a blocking minority (usually) needs >=4 countries to vote against a proposal. Germany voting against CSAR would mean (2) is not met in this case.
Source: https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/council-eu/voting-system/...
Germany - Das Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (Stasi).
Poland - Służba Bezpieczeństwa (SB)
Czech and Slovakia - Státní bezpečnost (StB)
Looks like latin cultures don't really care about being spied on by they governments.
This is a map of the government's positions, not even the parliament much less the public, and therefore a picture of whatever happen to be the parties in charge at the current time.
* There is little to no faith in our elected officials, especially from _that_ side
* Also people don't seem to care, all invested in the "i have nothing to hide" mentality
Government is a job that self-selects for people who either want safety (non elected jobs) or power (elected jobs) more than anything else, given it pays far less than the private sector. Both the safety people and the power people want to reduce public freedom and the ability to do things.
The only way we keep these people from this is the threat of voting them out of their jobs. But they are more motivated than we are, so they usually win over time.
Not really, both things need to be done by a law. So it's the same signal and complexity as just rejecting the law when it's proposed
And the second option at least does away with the pretension of permanence people like to use as an excuse to wash their hands of interest in politics
Instead of discussing WHY "owned" mobile phones have a short lifespan and we can't truly do whatever we want with them (be at the hardware/software level) and forced to choose between the apple and google duopoly, we get into these lousy law debates about privacy.
Why doesn't the EU put effort in paving the way for a more open and free tech world when we rely 100% on propietary technology that comes from the other side of the Atlantic?
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20240419IP...
https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-...
This is a wet dream for governments.
"Think of the children" will never die.
That said, how come we haven't seen massive antitrust action against the likes of Google? You only have to follow the money here.