Ideological and political divisions emerge among European Parliament political groups as they debate amendments on the draft EU data protection bill.
“I can see a shift towards more of the protection, under quotation marks, of business interests and not the protection of citizen’s fundamental rights,” Greek socialist MEP Dimitrios Droutsas told reporters in Brussels on Wednesday (15 May).
Droutsas is the parliament’s lead negotiator on the data protection bill.
The draft la...
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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.