EU elections 2019: We will only vote for politicians who vote against Article 13

There are many proofs about contacts between Lega or 5 star movement and Putin's emissaries.

Unfortunately many of them are in Italian.

Just look for Jacobo Iacoboni articles, that might have been translated and published in english.

His book 'the experiment' is also worth reading.

Besides, as a long time activist for internet freedom, I agree that something like article 13 is urgently needed.

There is no freedom without protection.

What EU is trying to do is to protect the small local EU actors against the tech giants from outside EU.

Fake news and propaganda are one obvious target of article 13.

The blank option is of course possible, but I do not like it.

I consider it the lesser evil.

I completely agree. In my opinion it should go down to the individual level.

Let's say China had independent states/countries per province. And, they all agreed to a set of laws individually but disagreed as a collective set of laws.

This would mean that most citizens would suffer as the laws are (at best) an average of the opinions of all citizens of China.

Being an average, most people would have at least one disagreement on how a particular law should or should not be. There will be of course some some people that lie on the exact average. These lucky people would be 100% fairly represented.

In order to be fair ultimately law needs to favor the individual, not a country, state, or other larger group.

Of course brain drain has been hugely beneficial for Germany. It also helps Germany that weaker economies are tied to the euro which keeps the euro's exchange rate down.

I used to be pro-EU, but time and time again they create regulations and directives that are simply harmful for our future or don't consider collateral damage. Furthermore, Germany and France seem to be pushing hard on becoming rulers whether the other members want it or not.

>but I disagree that leaving would improve things for any country.

Of course leaving won't improve things because the EU will try to punish any leavers as much as possible. The entire EU situation is just depressing, because you can't leave, it won't improve and bad decisions keep being made and you're forced to abide by them. And what makes it even worse is that the pro-EU people are telling me that I should be happy because of these bad decisions.

The EU is not associated with peace and of course cannot guarantee it. Citizens of EU countries are better off with their own country's rule of law than to succumb to the generality of all of Europe.

> There's trade benefits inside the EU, free travel for all citizens, and, recently added, no more roaming fees for mobile phones.

These all come at a cost you don't yet realize.

NATO was founded 70 years ago

The EU as we know it was established 27 years ago

NATO, despite its faults, has done more for European integration and peace than the EU. It carried Europe together through the stark darkness of the Cold War; how would the EU fare against such an existential threat?