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I am curious how this will affect Brexit. At some point it looked like public opinion in UK leaned against it. Right now it seems that EU is ready to pass any l

I am curious how this will affect Brexit. At some point it looked like public opinion in UK leaned against it. Right now it seems that EU is ready to pass any law which is pushed by a powerful lobby, even if this law is not the most well-thought idea like Article 11 and 13. This does not make EU better place to be in. In fact if Germany and France agree on something, this going to happen. I don't think that UK will accept that, even if they risk "hard brexit" (which is largely demonized, I can't believe that any bigger EU economy would just give up trading with UK, especially when World economy will start slowing down and every eurocent will count).

yulaow 8y ago
If I remember correctly UK was actually a strong proposer for this kind of legislation
- fock 8y ago
  And there were still British MEPs speaking for it, because it's the "future". I wonder why they can't even abstain or just stay away (like about 13% of the parliament did anyway...) after they engaged in Brexit for decisions which won't affect them (implementation of this directive is still about ~2 years off), but apparently paychecks are stronger than decency and common sense...
- omnimus 8y ago
  Exactly let's not forget it's the UK who is part of five eyes and is generaly on the antiprivacy opinion side in europe.
phatfish 8y ago
Please, play damaging economic games with your own country not mine. No one cares about this in the UK right now, we are far more worried about the meltdown of our government and their attempts make us all poorer with the Brexit madness. It is immeasurably more complicated than "I'm sure everyone will want to trade with the UK!". This is exactly the sort of line is expect to hear from the fanatics here.
philpem 8y ago
I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised if it pushes a chunk of the tech-savvy youth vote towards "Brexit at any cost". As I said elsewhere on this story -- the EU has possibly just handed Eurosceptic parties a massive win in certain demographics they've had trouble making inroads into.

yulaow 8y ago

If I remember correctly UK was actually a strong proposer for this kind of legislation

fock 8y ago
And there were still British MEPs speaking for it, because it's the "future". I wonder why they can't even abstain or just stay away (like about 13% of the parliament did anyway...) after they engaged in Brexit for decisions which won't affect them (implementation of this directive is still about ~2 years off), but apparently paychecks are stronger than decency and common sense...
omnimus 8y ago
Exactly let's not forget it's the UK who is part of five eyes and is generaly on the antiprivacy opinion side in europe.

phatfish 8y ago

Please, play damaging economic games with your own country not mine. No one cares about this in the UK right now, we are far more worried about the meltdown of our government and their attempts make us all poorer with the Brexit madness. It is immeasurably more complicated than "I'm sure everyone will want to trade with the UK!". This is exactly the sort of line is expect to hear from the fanatics here.

philpem 8y ago

I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised if it pushes a chunk of the tech-savvy youth vote towards "Brexit at any cost". As I said elsewhere on this story -- the EU has possibly just handed Eurosceptic parties a massive win in certain demographics they've had trouble making inroads into.