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Policy laundering

Policy laundering

Posted May 14, 2008 12:15 UTC (Wed) by rwmj (subscriber, #5474)
Parent article: European software patents via treaty?

It's time to make Policy Laundering (look it up on Google ...) illegal. It is solely designed to bypass troublesome concepts like democracy, accountability and debate, and it should be possible to bring the people who do it to justice. (And that includes all the lobbyists as well as the policitians).

Rich.


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Policy laundering

Posted May 14, 2008 12:48 UTC (Wed) by mattmelton (guest, #34842) [Link]

The purpose of the Commission is to do exactly that. The European Parliament only has the
power of veto during negotiations, with a stalemate being decided by the Council. Any system
that has a fail-through-approval is bloody stupid.

The only week, and oft tainted (if not warped), work the Commission does is investigate
breaches of the Treaty - but even then it's by somewhat favourable descretion only. 

I've forever seen the Commission as a commerical interests body - the kind of body you go to,
to pass EU-wide laws that benefit particular institutional intersts and not the European
public. My position hasn't changed the slightest since I've began to study the fundamentals of
EC law, and the working role of the Commission.

It is unaccountable to the people (it's members are not elected! the UK's representative of
late was a disgraced former MP who was friends with the Blair cabinet), and is so enshired any
European Activism would seen the entire Commission resign - shocking.

It's time to dissolve it.


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