Wait, this is being handled on the national level??? I thought you guys had some singular EU court thing for this, not a clusterF of the different countries' justice systems.
Yup, each of the EU's twenty-eight member states have a national data regular who is responsible for interpreting the law. One can appeal to EU courts. But the local context must be considered.
in the end the gdpr is more about opening new jobs.
also sites like: http://www.spiegel.de/ or https://www.bild.de/ do not care about the gdpr/dsvgo... so it won't happen that there will be many groundbreaking changes on how the governments will see privacy issues. at the end they just wanted to scare of the silicion valley.
The point if EU is/was to achieve an "ever closer union" so that war between European states would never happen again. It's not just an economic bloc.
Btw the immigration is the main issue which has nothing to do with trading.
What the poster above is lamenting over is that each member state is in charge of their own investigatory authority, and this makes a lot of sense, if you have a data leak that affects only Spanish citizens you wouldn't want the investigation being carried out by a country like Sweden or even by the EU itself. However if a data leak affects multiple member state citizens each of those member states are invited to and can enter a joint investigation. The issue they believe is that France may have a stricter interpretation of the law than a country like Poland which may make cooperating with the law more difficult as you don't know how strict to be, and while this certainly is going to be the case it's not so different from any other facet of life - In the US you may favour a certain state to be prosecuted in, you may prefer to have a different prosecutor or judge, etc.