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Re:EU copyright law proposal rejected by chki on Thursday July 05, 2018 @07:16AM (#17462346)
Technically: maybe. But the EU legislative process is very transparent (which is partially caused by the different legislative bodies that need to participate) and the European Parliament would probably not approve of such a hidden policy change.
Re:EU copyright law proposal rejected by krotton on Thursday July 05, 2018 @10:02AM (#17463303)
Actually they did (in 2005) try to slip a vote on software patents in by scheduling it for an "Agriculture and Fishery" meeting. Luckily, they failed.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2005/jan/23/eusd...