Text tabled : A6-0272/2009

  Dimitrios Papadimoulis (GUE/NGL), in writing. – (EL) The ‘telecommunications package’ requested by the Commission and the Council constitutes a potential threat to civil rights. The amendments which we tabled called for the safeguarding of civil rights, universal access and transparency and freedom on the Internet as an area in which ideas are exchanged and not as a resource controlled by politicians and businessmen. Internet users are customers, but they are also citizens. We shall continue to fight for the protection of the individual freedoms of all European citizens.