While the BBC is certainly decaying in quality and balance with each passing day, I think those deals might have surfaced after the vote happened.

> No mention of the fact that MEPs had very little to do with the contents of the law, which was mostly shaped by shady back-room dealings between the French and German government

Actually a lot of MEPs participated in the discussions and their contents (which doesn't mean what you're mention didn't happen, of course it did)