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Comment by nickslaughter02 | Hacker News Reader

EU countries will vote on the proposal on October 13th during the Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting.

It’s on the 14th. From the article:

> Despite strong opposition, Denmark is pushing forward and taking its current proposal to the Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting on October 14th.

What is it about the Danes in particular that make them want to be spied on and surveilled by the government? Is it some sort of weird national fetish?

As a Dane: I'm not sure how you reached that conclusion. A ton of people in Denmark are sceptical about this. You may argue that the Danes voted for the government that is now in favor in the surveillance, but the issue of surveillance weren't even on the agenda in the last election, so this has taken most people by surprise.

Is there any way to remove elected EU representatives from office?

When are the next EU elections? Is anyone using this as a campaigning issue, like "Don't vote these crooks in again, vote for me and I will end this chat control nonsense!"

The Danish people don’t want it, there’s even a parliamentary petition against it.

https://mastodon.social/@chatcontrol/115241974344102261

It’s just that the current Presidency of the Council of the European Union is Danish, so they are the ones with the authority to push this now.

https://danish-presidency.consilium.europa.eu

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