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Re:GDPR enforcer rules that IAB Europe’s consent popups are ... by andylynch on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @09:23AM (#30177924)
Remember you have MEPs representing you as well. European elections too often play a distant second fiddle to domestic ones but this really should not be the case.
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Re:GDPR enforcer rules that IAB Europe’s consent popups are ... by aembleton on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @10:35AM (#30179018)
Domestic politicians have the ability to instigate changes to legislation. MEPs lack that power - all they can do is block bad legislation from getting passed.
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Re:GDPR enforcer rules that IAB Europe’s consent popups are ... by denton-scratch on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @10:26AM (#30178881)
MEPs sit in the European Parliament, which is a talking shop, with very limited powers. It's hardly surprising that few Europeans know who their MEP is.
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Re:GDPR enforcer rules that IAB Europe’s consent popups are ... by Scarblac on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @12:09PM (#30180418)
I don't really have a MEP that's "mine", it's proportional representation,not a district system.
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Re:GDPR enforcer rules that IAB Europe’s consent popups are ... by denton-scratch on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @01:41PM (#30181932)
No districts? Is this a national "party list" system?

Where is that (pardon my inquisitiveness, and feel free not to answer)?

Instinctively it feels wrong not to be able to vote for a representative you can identify; but I can't formulate a coherent reason why it's wrong.

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Re:GDPR enforcer rules that IAB Europe’s consent popups are ... by Scarblac on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @04:49PM (#30184535)
In the Netherlands, in my case. Party lists, yes. Most European countries have that as far as I know, I thought the UK was an outlier.
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Re:GDPR enforcer rules that IAB Europe’s consent popups are ... by denton-scratch on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @05:36PM (#30185088)
I see. I wasn't aware that the UK EU constituencies were an idiosyncratic deviation.

Of course, we no longer have MEPs! I often forget this - that's how much difference the MEPs made to my life.

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