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Re: [FYI] European Parliament votes against inquiry committee
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Kelsey)
Fri Jul 7 10:25:51 2000
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Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 02:17:20 -0500
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From: John Kelsey <kelsey.j@ix.netcom.com>
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At 11:09 PM 7/5/00 +0200, PA Axel H Horns wrote:
>http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/6891/1.html
...
>The Greens believe the big political parties have bowed for the
>individual EU governments wishes not to take a strong position on the
>Echelon issue. 'The vote proved that most of the conservative,
>socialists and liberals member of parliament are unwilling to go
>against the wishes of certain EU governments,' according to the
>Greens.
The other possibility is that the bigger parties occasionally get a tidbit
of useful information from Echelon on their political rivals, irritating
journalists about to make them look bad, or similar stuff.
--John
