- Blair government in complete policy U-turn following “turns out it wasn’t either popular or properly thought through” shocker! – This time those stupid data retention proposals they were trying to push through the EU to avoid having to have a vote in Westminster on the things.
Now, I wonder, will they start pushing for EU-wide biometric ID as an alternative? They’ve only got a couple of months left with the presidency – are they really going to achieve NOTHING with it?
I do hope so…
October 12, 2005 at 10:52 pm
unfortunately it aint all done with – first all of i'd recommend reading http://www.statewatch.org/news/2005/oct/council-d…
basically saying that the council should go with the Commission directive but modify it to make it worse + remove things like reimbursement.
then the JHA press release http://ue.eu.int/ueDocs/newsWord/en/jha/86570.doc
showing that (i think) they couldnt get agreement at the JHA council over what to do and put it off until the next jha council (1st dec i think) so the framework decision is still gonna be hanging around whilst the commission directive might get going as well which, ive been told, is a slightly bizarre situation for the EU and people cant recall such a thing happening before!
anyway its less of a uturn than a realisation that getting something thru codecision with EP is better than something challenged under the ECJ