I'll use my limited knowledge earned by participating to pointless meetings (and interest meals) in Brussels, with bureaucrats, to explain how easy it is to pre

I'll use my limited knowledge earned by participating to pointless meetings (and interest meals) in Brussels, with bureaucrats, to explain how easy it is to prevent the QWACs part to be put into law. There is a point you have to understand: European politics are not like the US. It's more 'representative' in the sense that you don't have hard party lines on 95% of the issues, and less because like 30% of the population vote. Still, MEPs can mostly vote as they like. The bill isn't liked. All accross the parliament, individuals members will vote against. The far-right will vote against, as will most of the 'hard right'. A small part of the conservative right will also vote against: the issue is around the 'European identity' part of the bill (and lately some EPP people seem less federalist than they used to). 'The Left' (the party, hard left and associated) might vote against, they are big on privacy but also they see how the bill will help (not the QWACs part, the eID part) bureaucracy-adverse workers. So now, the support: you have EPP, Renew, the socialists (forgot the group name) and the greens. It'll be impossible to convince Renew to drop the QWACs part. They are the 'liberal' right, but despite calling themselves liberals, they're not big on liberties, the party lines won't change. For EPP, you might convince one or two more, but the party line won't bulge (they are really friendly with the commission). The two parties we can convince are the socialists and the greens. We need a center-left/green journal to push back on the QWACs part of the bill. The green might be hard to convince (they seems to have replaced most of their competent MPs with pro politicians in the last 10 years, it's hard to admit for me but I would trust an EPP member more than a green member right now), but we might make it.