The German EU Council Presidency is throwing in the towel. Like its seven predecessors, it failed to rally the support of a majority of Member States for the draft Regulation on the confidentiality of online communications. In the absence of anything better, it will therefore submit a progress report to the meeting of Telecommunications Ministers to be held on 7 December (see EUROPE B12522A11).
However, Berlin has been working hard to achieve a general approach from the EU Council on...