Jan Wildeboer 😷
The conservatives in the EU parliament, led by Manfred Weber, together with the far right, voted FOR drastic measurements against refugees. That was more important than to please the Big Corporations and the forces that want to destroy privacy so #ChatControl was avoided for the moment (but it is not gone). That's the TL;DR. Not really a win. Not really a loss.
I will celebrate that #ChatControl 1.0 didn't make it. But I am aware that this win for liberal and left-leaning people came at the high price of a conservative-far right ad-hoc coalition that did evil things today. The EU parliament is no longer a reliable defender of human rights and freedom for all. So a bitter taste remains.
Markus Fink@jwildeboer the european idea dies in the european parliament — and the commission of 2nd term UvdL is not of any help either