The Council of Ministers latest stealth move on the Telecoms Package - it sneaks the Harbour report, withs its chilling Internet restrictions provisions, into law - and does so without a prior statement to the Parliament or European citizens.

Bureacrats at the Council of Ministers have taken a unilateral decision behind closed doors to split the Telecoms

EU Council revisions maintain its ongoing effort to turn the Telecoms Package into an enabling law for Hadopi-style administrative justice in Europe.

The fight between the European Parliament and the Council over Amendment 138 is becoming rather like a game of political Scrabble, where the words are added and subtracted to alter the meaning, and the scores are re-counted. At stake is the right of European citizens to access and distribute over the Internet versus the creation of Hadopi-style administrative justice.

The outcome of the Telecoms Package trialogue last week, which took place after the heated meeting of the European Parliament's delegation, was a

A blazing argument in the European Parliament has shown up the deception of Catherine Trautmann and Alejo-Vidal-Quadras, which puts at risk the neutrality of the Internet and the rights of users to access and distribute content.

At the Conciliation committee meeting on Tuesday, the rapporteur Catherine Trautmann, and the Chairman, Alejo-Vidal-Quadras, came with a prepared script. They had planned to force the delegation to agree

The European Commission has circulated a draft declaration on "net neutrality". But is the ability to make comments on  the restrictive behaviour of network providers such as BT or Deutsche Telekom, the same thing as enforcing net neutrality? Or is it just intended to dupe  European citizens who are demanding a principle of net neutrality in the Telecoms Package?

Careful analysis of the Commission's "net neutrality" statement, reveals instead a statement concerning the monitoring of restrictions to Internet services and applications, where the Commission may

The Telecoms Package Conciliation committee meets again on Tuesday. Consumers and ISPs have called on them to uphold the Parliament's position opposing Hadopi-style administrative sanctions and supporting the rights of access to the Internet. After last week's betrayal of citizens by the rapporteur Catherine Trautmann and her negotiating team, what should the European Parliament now demand?

The key political issue for the European Parliament as the Conciliation committee meets again next Tuesday to discuss the Telecoms Package, is whether Europe what to do about copyright enforcement on the Internet, and the principle of restriction of access. Does Europe want Hadopi -style privatised, administrative punishment for