This is ridiculous and misinformed Anti-EU propaganda. If you look at the CleanIT website, you can see that this is just a project by the "Law Enforcement or Counter terrorism departments" of some European Countries. The project explicitly states that it has a "Non-legislative approach" and is seen as a "Public-Private-Partnership".
The only connection to the EU is that it received an EU financing in 2011. Clearly the content of the document is really troubling, but what would you expect from a document exclusively edited by some governments anti-terror departments? This reads more like a wishlist than anything having a remote chance of political survival.
Anyway there will be enough time to start worrying and outrage if these ideas actually appear in a legislative proposal by the EU commission. Even then it would likely take another 3-4 years to become law. Keep in mind that the current EU commission is only in place until the next EU elecions in 2014. It is very unlikely that a huge legislative project would be initiated before that.
... once these "non-legislative partnerships" gather enough movement from the powers that be, they can be difficult things to stop, especially because they stretch beyond physical borders.
That still does not fix the issue that the EU commission is a non democratic institution that rules by unopposed fiat. Being a european I rather see the whole commission gone asap.
Hyperbole bordering on propaganda again. The 27 EU countries elect their governments democratically. Then the council of these democratically elected governments appoints the EU commission for the specific time frame of 5 years and the appointment has to be confirmed by the democratically elected European Parliament. The commission only has the legislative initiative, but the proposals are voted on by the European Council and the Parliament, requiring at least a qualified majority, in many policy areas even requiring Unanimity...
FTA: "A leaked document from the CleanIT project shows just how far internal discussions in that initiative have drifted away from its publicly stated aims".
They've largely overstepped their initial public aims, so judging CleanIT by their website is useless.
I'm not judging CleanIT at all, I'm merely pointing out that their connection to the EU or its legislative agenda is practically nonexistent at the moment. The article headline is clearly FUD.
The only connection to the EU is that it received an EU financing in 2011. Clearly the content of the document is really troubling, but what would you expect from a document exclusively edited by some governments anti-terror departments? This reads more like a wishlist than anything having a remote chance of political survival.
Anyway there will be enough time to start worrying and outrage if these ideas actually appear in a legislative proposal by the EU commission. Even then it would likely take another 3-4 years to become law. Keep in mind that the current EU commission is only in place until the next EU elecions in 2014. It is very unlikely that a huge legislative project would be initiated before that.