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Search author name words: seedot Charlie McCreevy, Patents and the Irish plot to take over the EU
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Tuesday November 09, 2004 03:03 by seedot
software idea patents and the European Patent Directive The last few weeks saw another bout of EU politics on the news. The failure of the incoming Commission president to get his first team past the parliament was an unexpected opportunity for the EU correspondents to fill some space. Of course, Buttiglione was heinous enough that the EU Parliament could take a stand and threaten rejection of the entire commission. This is part of the problem - the only option is to reject the whole commission. Last time, in 1999, there were supposedly 5 out of 15 commissioners that get a negative rejection - yet they took their positions and expenses and all the power for five years anyway. This year, before Buttiglione self combusted the parliament had been really pissed off at kovacs - the Hungarian apparatchik who wasn't quite sure what his portfolio was but would be allowed have a go anyway. Nellie Kroes might have been up to her neck in compromising business relationships with people she was going to have to rule in favour or against as competition commissioner but, sure, we can't ruin the lot of them just for one bad apple. Let her by. This is bad. The commissioners have major power and the idea that you can only sack an entire cabinet of 25 people together is a democratic failing. The row over the incoming commission is only one of a number of issues that the commission and parliament are likely to go face to face over in the next few years. Whether or not the constitution gets passed the institutions of the EU are in a state of flux as the 10 new countries have their impact. Ireland decided to help this by sending Charlie McCreevy to Europe, where along with Nellie Kroes in competition and Peter Mandelson in Trade they can sign Gats, push Bolkestein through, follow the Lisbon Agenda and bring us all to our very own neo-liberal dystopia. But nobody will mention this. Cos even with a crisis Europe is boring. When it's business as usual it's mind numbing. Below are two articles on a single issue - the European Patent Directive which is part of what Charlie will be doing next, now that Brian Cowen gets to be Mr. Fiscal Rectitude at home. I rang a few people about this and did some reading after hearing that a major victory had been won by the Open and Free Software campaigners but then clawed back by an Irish presidency. It just seemed fitting that Charlie McCreevy got this brief. Many anti-EU campaigners cite the imposition of neo-liberalism on Ireland by the EU as a reason to campaign against it. If this is the case, expect to be met by protests next time you do a city break for the cheap dining and smoking inddors. They'll be just as upset when they realise that ireland has a plot to impose neo-liberalsim on Europe. Charlie is just a scout.
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