Remember those EU coutries signing the ACTA treaties? Regrets are settling in.

[thewayne]

The Slovenian ambassador regrets signing it.

"Slovenia's ambassador to Japan, Helena Drnovek Zorko, writes: 'I signed ACTA out of civic carelessness, because I did not pay enough attention. Quite simply, I did not clearly connect the agreement I had been instructed to sign with the agreement that, according to my own civic conviction, limits and withholds the freedom of engagement on the largest and most significant network in human history, and thus limits particularly the future of our children.'"

http://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/02/02/1625236/slovenian-ambassador-regrets-signing-acta-agreement


And Poland suspends ratification.

"Poland has suspended its ratification process for ACTA, throwing the copyright crackdown into doubt for the whole European Union. ACTA is being handled as a 'mixed agreement' in the EU due to its criminalization clauses, so if a single EU member state (such as Poland) fails to ratify it, it is null and void across the entire union. If that were to happen, at least six of the remaining international signatories would have to ratify ACTA for it to apply anywhere in the world. Outside the EU, only eight countries — including the U.S. — have signed."

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/03/1935257/actas-eu-future-in-doubt-as-poland-suspends-ratification

Comments

[silveradept]

Wonderful. At least they're still in the process where they can reverse themselves.