Tomorrow the European Parliament will discuss the new copyright regulations, that include the filtering of uploaded contents and a linking tax.
In my country, the press and the media have been extraordinarily silent on the subject, while a bunch of “patriots” fought like rabid weasels on social media about the sacrality of Italian espresso and the opportunity off shutting down supermarkets on Sundays.
Karavansara 
12 September 2018 at 10:25
We are a very peculiar people. That’s the polite version of it, of course. Blatant ignorance and the lack of comprehension of the most basic mechanism are becoming a trademark, together with “pizza, mandolin, mafia” of the past. The people we send to Bruxelles are the second or third-rate politician, the kind that is not smart enough to keep up their business in Italy, and I don’t have much hope for today. Even if the vote will not be successful, it will become a matter for the next legislature. Too much money on the table and too few people able to look at the future, as always.
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12 September 2018 at 12:25
Not looking at the future is killing us.
But of course, when the new regulations are passed and the punters will find out they can no longer share their selfies on Facebook, rage will explode, and someone will point out that “It’s all Europe’s fault.”
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12 September 2018 at 16:40
Well, we are already on the road to Hell. See what the EU parliament voted this morning.
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12 September 2018 at 16:42
What really worries me about this morning’s vote is the “fine tuning behind closed doors”.
That’s scary.
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13 September 2018 at 08:53
This is the EU today. Lobbying, private investiment groups and a lot of smoke.
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13 September 2018 at 10:01
I can only speak for Italy, of course, but we never took the EU seriously – when we had to elect people to represent us, we elected football players, TV personalities and faded pop stars. Our representatives are notorious for their absenteism. As usual, you can’t blame the system if you did nothing to make it work.
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19 September 2018 at 09:51
Well, if you take a look at the current roster of the EU parliament then you will find a number of very peculiar characters from every country. It’s like a circus, but without the glamour and the elephants.
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