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The Green Party on chat control: "It went wrong"

When the Justice Committee said yes to the so-called chat control proposal, neither V nor MP objected. It now turns out that both parties are actually against it – but failed to report a dissenting opinion.

» Updated: 01 September 2024, 09:11

» Published: 19 June 2024

The Green Party on chat control: "It went wrong"
Photo: Jessica Gow/TT

When the Justice Committee approved the so-called chat control proposal, neither V nor MP objected. It now turns out that both parties are actually against it – but failed to report a dissenting opinion.

On Tuesday, the Justice Committee approved the proposal, often described as "chat control 2.0".

This is a compromise proposal that Belgium has put forward ahead of the Council meeting, since the original version met with strong resistance.

In the Committee, only SD and C objected. That MP and V are also against the disputed proposal was not apparent, as the two parties failed to report a dissenting opinion.

According to Rebecka Le Moine, who sits on the EU Committee for MP, a mix-up of two different proposals occurred.

There are two different versions, namely the Council's compromise proposal, which is so general in its wording that we cannot support it at all.

And a proposal where we in the Green group in the EU Parliament have worked out different requirements that we have got through. We support that, she says.

It was the former that was taken up in the Committee.

With hindsight, we would have submitted a dissenting opinion, but we didn't – it was a mistake. It's human to make mistakes sometimes, says Rebecka Le Moine.

That V also made a mistake is something that journalist Emanuel Karlsten was the first to report.

The proposal is intended to protect children from abuse, but has been criticised for implying far-reaching restrictions on personal integrity.

Correction: An earlier version of the image caption contained incorrect information about who cast MP's vote.

TTT
By TTThis article has been altered and translated by Sweden Herald

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