The European Parliament will indeed defend an end to geo-blocking for a very limited number of radio and television programmes. On Tuesday 12 December, the whole of Parliament ratified the negotiating mandate granted a fortnight ago by the judicial affairs committee - JURI (see EUROPE 11909). Given this result, Tiemo Wölken (S&D, Germany) announced his intention to withdraw his name from the report.
It should be recalled that the legislative proposal seeks to promote the cross-border...