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Re:Majority of EU countries support scanning of audio commun... by denton-scratch on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @04:43PM (#35967492)
> More or less, each government selects a minister to represent them in this council.

That's right; but note that the minister they select depends on what's being discussed. There isn't really a "Council of Ministers" you could list the names of; it changes for each meeting.

That is, the C of M is really a council of member governments. And what government wouldn't like to have the EU mandate maximum surveillance, so when their citizens complain, they can just blame the EU?

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Re:Majority of EU countries support scanning of audio commun... by FinnKuhn on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @05:26PM (#35967986)
You can see this all the time in German politics. Someone says that they don't want to do a thing in Germany and than just do it in the EU. The best example would probably be chat control.
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