H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > On Saturday 07 May 2005 18:17, Anne Wilson wrote: > >>HarM, I can never get my head around politics. When I lobbied my MEP I was >>told that parliament would not accept a rubber-stamp situation, but I'm no >>longer convinced that they can actually do anything. What, in your >>opinion, would make parliament stronger? >> >>(I know we said no politics on the list, but since this is very much a >>linux issue, I hope I'll be forgiven.) >> >>Anne > > > Well the parliament did show it's teeth last year, in refusing the proposed > Italian commissioner because he had certain "views" on working women and > homosexuality. > They need a democratic basis to work on though, something which doesn't come > easy especially because national politicians dislike sharing their existing > power.
The big problem here (and one that we can use to our advantage) is that it is not a democratice process at this time. The (elected politicians) took the proposed legislation from the (unelected) Commission and made changes specifically to leave software out of the legislation. The Council of Ministers then ignored the changes to the proposed legislation, reverting back to the commission's report. > > One good thing about the new constitution is, is that it makes it much more > clear where which power is. Defacto the parliament will get more power than > it has now and democratic rules are institutionalised. > > At the very least get registered at http://www.ffii.org if you're against the > proposed patent legislation...or do more there;) I agree.
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