Tag: ACTA

  • Vigilance remains necessary

    Vigilance remains necessary

    Not one week after the crushing defeat suffered by ACTA in the European Parliament, comes another trade agreement fresh on its heels. This time, it is called CETA (Canada-EU Trade Agreement), a trade agreement between Canada and the European Union. Rather worryingly, certain provisions of the CETA text seem to be copied and pasted from…

  • Victory! EU Parliament rejects ACTA

    Victory! EU Parliament rejects ACTA

    In what can only be called a crushing defeat, the European Parliament decided today, around 1 PM to say “No” to ACTA! With a vote count of 478 against to 39 for ACTA, we can finally say that this insidious treaty is now dead.

  • ACTA countdown running

    ACTA countdown running

    Despite (or maybe thanks to) rumours that the EPP Group in the EU Parliament was going to try some last minute trickery to get ACTA off the agenda for this coming Wednesday, this latest threat has failed to materialize. This means that the countdown to the vote on ACTA in the European Parliament is still…

  • Karel de Gucht: Vote of EU Parliament on ACTA doesn’t matter

    Karel de Gucht: Vote of EU Parliament on ACTA doesn’t matter

    I have written before on the shocking arrogance of the European Commission. However, it now appears that matters are even worse than previously thought. EU Commissioner Karel De Gucht held a speech the day before the INTA Committee voted on ACTA, announcing that the vote of the EU Parliament on ACTA doesn’t matter, ACTA will…

  • I’m a terrorist

    I’m a terrorist

    What? Yes, I am a terrorist. At least, according to Marielle Gallo, a member of the European Parliament, wife to famous historian Max Gallo. In a heroic effort to prove to the world how far Mrs. Gallo is removed from her constituency (and sanity, some might argue) she stated in a recent interview that those…

  • Breaking news: INTA committee rejects ACTA 19 – 12!

    Breaking news: INTA committee rejects ACTA 19 – 12!

    This just in: The INTA committee, the committee in the European Parliament that is responsible for ACTA has just accepted the motion to REJECT ACTA! This is good news!