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Just arrived here in Luxembourg ahead of
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the meeting of justice ministers at the
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European Council just down the road from
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here. The big topic today on everyone's
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mind, chat control, the EU's plan to
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monitor and scan your private messages
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and mine. Now, I've got some breaking
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news for you from this morning. Come
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So, they've just published an updated
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agenda for today's and tomorrow's
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meetings and chat control somehow no
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longer appears. It's been quietly
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removed from the discussion and now it's
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completely off the table.
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Germany, Poland, Slovakia, the
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Netherlands. Yeah, these were all key
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voices pushing back. But that's no
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accident. We were right there delivering
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petitions, confronting ministers, and
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applying pressure where it mattered
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So what does this mean? First of all, it
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means our pressure worked. The public
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backlash from hundreds of thousands of
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citizens across Europe was relentless.
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We made them feel the heat and they
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They were terrified to bring it to a
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vote because they knew that we actually
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had the numbers to block it. So, let's
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be clear here. This is all tactical.
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Does all this really mean that the EU
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has given up on trying to read your
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No. Not a chance. This is only a
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temporary retreat. We've delayed it, not
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defeated it. The draft law to scan
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private messages is still well alive and
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could return in a new form at any time.
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But here's the thing. The very idea that
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the state would have the right to
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inspect messages, messages from citizens
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before they are sent contradicts the
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very foundations of freedom and the rule
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of law. But really, after all this, this
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week proved something huge. It proved
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that citizens pressure works. So, we
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can't relax now. Not now. We got to keep
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pushing, keep pressing louder and
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stronger before attack control or any
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twisted version of it comes back to
