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MISTICA: Microsoft sponsor EU presidency?

From: Daniel Pimienta ([email protected])
Date: vie may 14 2004 - 13:12:07 AST

>Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 19:08:14 +0200
>From: Bernard Lang <[email protected]>
>To: Forum ISOC-France <[email protected]>
>
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> Microsoft, a sponsor for the presidency of the EU?
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>
>Brussels, 14th May.
>For immediate release.
>
>At the initiative of Olga Zrihen, Member of the European Parliament from the
>Belgian PS, of the internet section of the French socialist party "TemPS
>r�els" and of the VOV, Virtueller Ortsverein, the German virtual section SPD,
>a protest action will take place in front of the permanent
representation of
>Ireland to the European Union this Monday, 17 May 2004 at 1300 (Rue Froissart
>89, 1040 Bruxelles), during which CD-ROM containing free software will be
>distributed, notably to the Irish diplomats, as a signal of the existence
of a
>free european alternative to the monopoly of the American company, Microsoft.
>
>The European draft legislation on software patents, crucial for the future of
>the European information industry, after the first lecture of the European
>Parliament, that substantially amended the initial proposition of
commissioner
>Bolkestein, is on the agenda of the "competitiveness" council of ministers of
>the 17 of May. This proposal for a directive directly puts in confrontation
>the material interests of the SMEs that comprise the bulk of the European
>software industry to that of the big multinationals, such as the American
>Microsoft.
>
>Now we note that, Microsoft officially sponsors the Irish presidency of the
>European Union . According to Olga Zrihen, member of the European parliament
>Belgian socialist party, "We have the right to question this situation: the
>presidency of the EU, which is a central element of the European legislative
>process, and is supposed to obey the democratic principles, accepts to be
>sponsored by a private company whose economic interests are directly put into
>cause by a legislative proposition on the agenda of the Council!
>Furthermore, knowing that the "compromise" proposal emanating from the Irish
>presidency rejects all of the European parliament's first lecture amendments,
>which corresponds to the demands of Microsoft, there is a feeling of great
>worry."
>
>A press conference is to be held later at 1500 at the European parliament. A
>contribution of European socialists for the democratic control of the
>information technologies will be presented by Olga Zrihen, member of the
>European parliament in collaboration with Maurice Ronai, a national
>delegate to information society's issues for the French socialist party,
>Theirry Noisette, the secretary of the internet section of the French social
>party " TemPS r�els" and Anne Brand, a spokeswoman of VOV (Virtueller
>Ortsverein, the virtual section of the German SPD).
>
>Contact person: Antonio Gambini, parliamentary assistant of Olga Zrihen
>MEP: (+32) (0)479.48.28.78
>
>Olga ZRIHEN, D�put�e Europ�enne
>Assistant Parlementaire: Antonio GAMBINI
>Parlement Europ�en
>Rue Wiertz
>ASP12G108
>Tel: 00 322 284 60 94
>Fax: 00 322 284 94 51
>B-1047 Bruxelles
>
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