La Quadrature just sent a letter to the Members of European Parliament, rapporteurs and shadow rapporteurs on the “Telecoms Package”, who are meeting these days for preparing the second reading.

Some provisions of the text agreed…

Paris, November 27th 2008 − The EU Council reached a political agreement on the telecommunication reform (“Telecoms Package”) on Thursday, Nov. 27th. On one hand, crucial modifications to the text finally doom Nicolas Sarkozy’s project…

La Quadrature du Net (Squaring the Net) has submitted on 26 November 2008 its comments on the Green Paper on Copyright in the Knowledge Economy published by the European Commission.

Paris, November 20th 2008 − Essential rights and freedoms for Internet users are at stake. On November 27th, The Council of EU may open the door to an pan-european “graduated response” by removing Amendment 138,…

Everybody agrees that European Union suffers from a democratic deficit which deepens the gap between European institutions and their citizens. What is more unknown is that one of main reasons for this is that Member…

Translation of the letter sent by La Quadrature to the French minister in charge of the Telecoms Package, Luc Chatel.

Mr Minister,

On November 27th, the Council of the European Union will examine the project reforming electronic…

A few weeks ago, the French law installing “graduated response” against Internet users was accepted by the French SenateTranslation of the french law.

The European Commission accepts amendment 138 (Bono/Cohn-Bendit/Roithova) against the french “graduated response”, one week after the French law is unanimously voted in first reading by the French Senate.
Some right reserved (From flickr).

Paris, 31 October 2008

The European Commission opposed on Monday a flat refusal to French president Nicolas Sarkozy’s request for deleting amendment 138 of the Telecoms Package. It is yet another slap in the face for the proponents of…