On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 10:23 -0500, Luis Villa wrote: > This is great, Anne. Congrats on any part you played in this.
I was there. (In The Danish Parliament for the 5th time.) It is the Danish Minister of Commerce number 3 from the left, being filmed for DK TV news. Anne > Luis > > > On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 16:20:36 +0100, Anne �stergaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > DENMARK will ask for software patents directive to become B-item in > > European Council of Ministers > > ------ > > Press release: > > > > Victory for democratic influence on software patents. > > > > The Danish Parliament (by the EU Committee) has decided to change the > > mandate of the Danish government to ensure that on the next meeting in > > the EU Council the software patent directive will be discussed as a > > B-item instead of passing as an A-item without any discussion. > > > > Other parliaments have passed resolutions opposing the software patent > > directive. But Denmark is the first country to call for a B-item and > > thereby reopening the discussion. If just The Netherlands, Germany, > > Poland, and Spain backs the Danish request, there will not be a > > qualified majority in favor of passing the directive without discussion. > > > > "This is a victory for the democratic process in the European Union. > > Both in Denmark and the rest of Europe there have been a tremendous > > interest in this issue.- IT-Political Association is ecstatic now that > > there is a very good chance that the all the citizens in Europe will > > have a chance to participate in the discussion of the directive," Ole > > Tange, board member in IT-Political Association says. "We do not view > > this as a failure for the proponents of the directive; if their > > arguments are valid they would still have been valid after a democratic > > discussion. Though so far we have not seen valid arguments." > > > > Niels Elgaard Larsen, Anne �stergaard, and Ole Tange from IT-pol.dk > > spoke to the EU Committee in Folketinget.dk as part of a delegation also > > counting Peter Ussing from PROSA.dk and Peter Mogensen from > > Digitalforbruger.dk > > > > -- > > Best > > > > Anne �stergaard > > > > IT-Politisk Forening > > > > (00 45 35 42 88 73) > > -- > > Anne �stergaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > foundation-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list > > > -- Anne �stergaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
