European official quits over Europe signing up to controversial ACTA web treaty.
TOP European official Kader Arif has quit in protest after the EU signed up to the ACTA anti-piracy treaty, which opponents say will fundamentally alter the nature of the internet.
Kader Arif, rapporteur for ACTA in the European Parliament, resigned and wrote that “I want to denounce in the strongest possible manner the entire process that led to the signature of this agreement: no inclusion of civil society organisations, a lack of transparency from the start of the negotiations, repeated postponing of the signature of the text without an explanation being ever given, exclusion of the EU Parliament's demands that were expressed on several occasions in our assembly.”
He said right-wing parties had “depriv[ed] the Parliament of its right to expression and of the tools at its disposal to convey citizens' legitimate demands. I will not take part in this masquerade.”
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TOP European official Kader Arif has quit in protest after the EU signed up to the ACTA anti-piracy treaty, which opponents say will fundamentally alter the nature of the internet.
Kader Arif, rapporteur for ACTA in the European Parliament, resigned and wrote that “I want to denounce in the strongest possible manner the entire process that led to the signature of this agreement: no inclusion of civil society organisations, a lack of transparency from the start of the negotiations, repeated postponing of the signature of the text without an explanation being ever given, exclusion of the EU Parliament's demands that were expressed on several occasions in our assembly.”
He said right-wing parties had “depriv[ed] the Parliament of its right to expression and of the tools at its disposal to convey citizens' legitimate demands. I will not take part in this masquerade.”
Full Article here......
http://www.independent.ie/business/t...y-3002328.html
Courtesy easkey Boards.ie