And I also did this breakdown of voting actions by British MEPs and
constituency (since I'm in the UK). I post it here in case anyone might
find it useful.
In favour:
East Midlands: Emma McClarkin (Conservative), Roy Palmer (Labour), Rupert
Matthews (Conservative)
Eastern: Alex Mater (Labour),
In case it is of use to anyone, I dug out the voting actions on a
per-MEP basis. Here it is.
In full, 438 votes in favour, 226 against, 39 abstentions. I went
looking for a list of which MEPs voted for what and there does not seem
to be a simple, clear, official list. What we do have is a PDF:
htt
At the moment this is just second step of legislation process, not the
final vote on directive. Namely, the voting today was for EU Parliament
negotiation possition during trilogue discussions in order to adopt a
definitive text which will then be voted again at Parliament.So, we should
now push
Oh, wow. Interesting how that passed pretty quietly compared to the proposal in
May. I don’t think I saw anything reminding us about it over on English
Wikipedia.
The Wikimedia Foundation wrote up a blog post with potential consequences
earlier this year:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/06/29/
If I understand correctly, the European parliament just approved the
copyright law essentially without changes, thus supporting the version we
protested against in May. What would be the consequences for us?
Cheers
Yaroslav
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