EPO: What Comes Next
EPO workers are likely to go on strike or engage in another kind of industrial action. This is much needed and well overdue. We thank workers willing to participate and value their moral courage. It's not easy. The examiners are scientists like many of us who read and write Techrights, they're not lawyers who mastered the 'art' of threatening people.
We'll come back to Cocainegate later this month and next year (we'll have plenty more to say, including new information). But first, knowing there's an imminent meeting 'at' the EPOrg (not Office, Organisation), we'll encourage people to take action in hopes of matters being rectified, or at the very least widely recognised.
European media seems to have been sedated by soft bribes from cocaine addicts and SLAPPs, so even though it acknowledges to me that there are severe governance and lawlessness issues, it is reluctant to publish articles about those issues.
While it's tempting to say something like "well, I can't blame them!" it would be overlooking the role of media in a functioning democracy. So we seem to have lost that already.
The EPO is currently a battleground in the fight against corruption in Europe. █