One more scandal in the European Parliament
Within the next 2 years, the 28 member states are obliged to adjust their legislation, so that the secrets of the corporations should be protected more efficiently, and those who will dare to publish them, should be prosecuted further. The initiative for the new legislation came from Merkel's and Schäuble's European People's Party (New Democracy belongs to the family), with the argument that more and more corporations become victims of leaks and industrial espionage.
In reality, a unified lobby of some big multinational corporations, like Intel, Alstom, Michelin, Solvay, Safran, Nestlé, General Electric, etc., have imposed their policy to the European parliament by securing the consent of Verhofstadt's (neo)liberals and the so-called (unfortunately) Socialists. Only the Greens and the European United Left opposed the legislation. All these, at the same time where 500,000 citizens have signed a paper through which the new legislation was characterized as a serious threat against the right of citizens for access to information, demanding its withdrawal.
http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2016/04/one-more-scandal-in-european-parliament.html
