So the end-game is for this to become the Orwell Team in the IT department for a European superstate, then?!

Icon: can't decide between BB and 'suck on this'...

Pity Ireland and Britain aren't part of it!

Come on guys - world recession and all? We know you love shoving the brown envelopes to your contractor pals for failing to deliver "IT" projects but don't you think you could wait a year or two for the next batshit crazy multimillion-euro piece of epic fail - give us taxpayers a little breathing space huh?

With *so* many different definitions.

I'd look at the definitions used by the EU *very* carefully.

For great justice!

A few gazillion euros and five years later, they'll notice that it doesn't work. In the meantime anyone with half a clue will have switched to strong end-to-end encryption and onion routing. Good luck guise. You may catch a few 8-yo pranksters if you're fast enough.

Pub time...

Okay, I accept the links are rather tenuous (half hearted or haw farted?) and el Reg mods: the concept is accountability, transparency and respecting the public. These seem to be poorly done under things from a UK and EU.

But just look at this and dream ...

http://www.nj.gov/recovery/understanding.html

Now is that not a more pleasant way to treat the public?

One might wish to ask oneself: where is the UK's, where is the EU's, ... and so forth