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Old 12-06-2014, 11:27 AM   #152
Rizla
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Not sure why anybody would wonder.
Politicians and bureaucrats want what they always want: money they can control to buy votes and/or line their pockets. Everything else flows from there and if they nuke entire cottage industries, so be it.

The needs of the few (them) outweigh the needs of the many (everybody else).

The roots of this come from outside the ebook world so going into detail belongs elsewhere. (Geopolitics, for one. Sociopolitics, another.)
Originally many people had hopes for the EU as a organization that represented the "middle-class" (i.e. normal people's) interests. Sure, it's been proven to not be the case. Given a referendum, the French and the Dutch rejected the EU, but then had it foisted on them anyway.

But it's interesting. Who actually controls EU policy and what are its objectives? Anyway, I suppose the place for such a discussion is the P&R forum.
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