<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><oembed><version>1.0</version><provider_name>Digital Rights in Bulgaria</provider_name><provider_url>https://bogomil.blogactiv.eu</provider_url><author_name>bogomil</author_name><author_url>https://bogomil.blogactiv.eu/author/bogomil/</author_url><title>Online discussion with Malcolm Harbour, MEP, on the Telecom package and consumer protection </title><html>Today I take a part of a discussion about civil rights and consumer protection in Telecom package of European Parliament.

You can see the &lt;a href=&quot;http://parliament.europe.bg/en/index.php?id=19597&amp;category=375&quot;&gt;chat log here&lt;/a&gt;. Please read it carefully.

Me:
&lt;blockquote&gt;hello Mr. Harbour On net neutrality you are a kind of European Obama. Why is net neutrality so important for you and the internet users of the EU?&lt;/blockquote&gt;
Malcolm Harbour:
&lt;blockquote&gt;I am quite unclear as to what President Obama´s policies are. We are awaiting the appointment of his Chairman of the FCC. As far as I am concerned, net neutrality is not a major issue for the European communications space because we have an open access model. My report retains the principles of a quality of service obligation, as proposed by the European Commission but only with strict safeguards about its application.

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As far as the amendments are concerned, we now have a proposal from the Member States on which we are negotiating. We think that the s&lt;strong&gt;pirit of amendments 138 and 166&lt;/strong&gt; can be included in the final package, though not in exactly the same form.&lt;/blockquote&gt;</html><type>rich</type></oembed>