Attitudes of EU MEPs & Groups on Information Infrastructure Issues
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Positions of national Parties (where known, otherwise hints):
AT | BE | CY | CZ | DE | DK | EE | ES | FI | FR | GR | HU | IT | LT | LV | NL | PL | PT | SE | SK | UK
Members of European Parliament ranked by their vote of September 2003
(high scores mean favoring clear limitation of patentability)
AT | BE | DE | DK | ES | FI | FR | GR | IE | IT | LU | NL | PT | SE | UK
Attitudes of EU Party Groups
- EU Verts/ALE (Greens/EFA): 100% helpful on all information infrastructure dossiers
- EU GUE/NGL/LEFT (post-communists): 100% helpful, similar to Greens
EU EDD: 100% helpful on all information infrastructure dossiers, very critical of EU laws in general
EU UEN: 100% helpful on swpat dossier, less so on IPRED
- EU NI (non-aligned): voted for clear limitation of patentability
EU ELDR (Liberals): 50% helpful (UK and Manders (NL, JURI) unhelpful, Boogerd (NL D66), Sterckx (BE VLD) and Olle Schmidt (SE) helpful), under pressure from Bolkestein (NL/VVD)
EU PSE (Socialists / Social Democrats): 50% helpful (FR and BE very helpful; UK and SE very unhelpful, DE ambiguous), under pressure from "their" rapporteur McCarthy, whom they managed to nearly neutralise in summer 2003
EU EPP-DE (Conservatives + Christdems): 20% helpful (e.g. AT, FI), 80% blindly follow their "IP experts" (= patent lobby soldiers) Wuermeling (DE), Harbour (UK) and Fourtou (FR)
Party Groups in order of rank by software patent vote
GUE/NGL | UEN | Verts/ALE | NI | EDD | ELDR | PSE | PPE-DE
(from most to least favorable)
Detailed MEP Voting grid (individual MEP view with a info)
http://www.ffii.org/~bkaindl/votes/ - also shows questionnaire responses(where entered using http://aktiv.ffii.org)
