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Few Italians MEPs Committed to Digital Freedoms

Published
by
Roberto Galoppini
on June 15, 2009
in Europe eGov and Italians do it
. 1 Comment

Italian MEPs of the past legislation are told to be the best paid for least work, for sure was not easy to build fruitful relationships with most of them about digital freedom issues.

Newly-elected Italian MEPs are not much interested into these matters, only six of them actually signed the Caro Candidato Campaign (part of the “free software pact” initiative).

Marco Cappato, one of the most active on those issues, is out because his party is below the 4% threshold.

Upcoming European Elections: Marco Cappato

Published
by
Roberto Galoppini
on May 9, 2009
in Europe eGov and Italians do it
. 3 Comments

Net neutrality is at risk in Europe, the Telecoms package keeps popping up, the European software patents war is not over and we need to choose carefully our MEP candidates.

CarloMarco Cappato has been fighting software patents since 2003, and I’m not surprised he just signed the free software pact, the initiative mentioned earlier this week. Now he asks for help, if you like what he did on digital freedoms for years it is time to help him to get elected.

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