[pp.int.general] La Quadrature du Net: Amendment 138 dead by lack of courage of the Parliament

[Nicolas Sahlqvist]

A UK think-thank has a somewhat gloomier picture:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/6440812/Lisbon-Treaty-will-usher-in-European-surveillance-state.html

I am sure the other governments follows UK's example..


- Nicolas
  PPI / PPSE member


On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Amelia Andersdotter <teirdes at gmail.com>wrote:

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> 2009/10/23 Nicolas Sahlqvist <nicco77 at gmail.com>
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> Does the treaty of Lisbon have any effect on this?
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>
> For the UK in particular, the EU at large has meant a massive influx of
> legislation. Up until the early 1990s the UK government passed about 18
> legislative acts per year, after 1997 more than a thousand.
>
> But this is because of the clash between Napoleonic/Germanic law and the
> Common Law systems: Common Law is based on case law, whereas the rest of
> Europe relies on legislative acts (that  are of course also interpreted in
> case law).
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> The Lisbon Treaty will likely force the UK to continue passing legislative
> acts, unless they give directives direct effect (presumably) in UK courts.
> However, legislative acts aren't necessarily a bad thing: for one, it is
> easier for me as a citizen to look of the state regulations on sewers than
> try to locate sewer-related case law in the official journal of the high
> court.
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>> - Nicolas
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>> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:22 AM, El Tres <pirat at eltres.de> wrote:
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>>> Am 23.10.2009 um 00:16 schrieb Eric Priezkalns <
>>> eric.priezkalns at pirateparty.org.uk>:
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>>>> [UK]   A constitution may exist, even if it is unwritten.  Such a
>>>> constitution may be stronger than one written on a piece of paper, but where
>>>> people don't do what the words on the paper say.
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>>>>
>>> Hear, Hear!
>>>
>>> El Tres
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