Dear list members,
We've noticed that this list's activity is very low to non-existent.
That's a shame because when new people sign up they expect ongoing
discussions - and of course it means that Free Software activity in the
region or topic it's connected to is low or moved to elsewhere.
However, it could also mean that people rotated. The "original" folks
moved to different places and topics, and the new folks stayed silent
for some reason. So instead of just deleting an this inactive list, we
would like to give you the opportunity of forming a new community on
this list.
For that, we would need list moderators. It prove to be sensible to have
2 people taking over this role which involves:
* handling the moderation queue, so sorting out spam, letting in
legitimate external mails, and approving new members depending on the
policy of the mailing list,
* facilitating interesting discussions on the list to get activity
started again. Free Software is in the rise - and often also under
attack - almost everywhere, so we won't run out of discussion items,
* and being the contact point for administrators like me in case of
technical problems or any changes.
Please let me know by direct mail to me whether you'd be interested in
being a moderator for this list. If we won't find at least 2 moderators
soon, I'm afraid we will have to close this list (which doesn't mean it
cannot be reopened again in the future).
But even if this list would be closed eventually, the FSFE still offers
many interesting channels for exchange and chat, e.g.:
* the discussion@ mailing list [^1]
* the Discourse forum [^2]
* the various ways to contribute and work together [^3]
* and more [^4]
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask me. Enjoy the holiday
season!
Best,
Max
[^1]: https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
[^2]: https://community.fsfe.org
[^3]: https://fsfe.org/contribute
[^4]: https://fsfe.org/contact/community
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= Julia Reda, MEP: "Proprietary Software threatens Democracy" =
[ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160907-01.sv.html ]
Julia Reda ended the QtCon, a conference for the Free Software
community, with a closing keynote on, among other things, Free Software
in the European Public Sector.
Ms Reda, a member of the EU Parliament for the Pirate Party, explained
how proprietary software, software that forbids users from studying and
modifying it, has often left regulators in the dark, becoming a
liability for and often a threat to the well-being and health of
citizens.
An example of this, she said, is the recent Dieselgate scandal, in which
auto-mobile manufacturers installed software that cheated instruments
that measured fumes in test environments, only to spew illegal amounts
of toxic exhaust into the atmosphere the moment they went on the road.
Ms Reda also explained how medical devices running proprietary software
posed a health hazard for patients. She gave the example of a woman with
a pacemaker who collapsed while climbing some stairs due to a bug in her
device. Doctors and technicians had no way of diagnosing and correcting
the problem as they did not have access to the code.
Also worrying is the threat software with restrictive licenses pose to
democracy itself. The trend of substituting traditional voting ballots
with voting machines is especially worrying, because, as these machines
are not considered a threat to national security, their software also
goes unaudited and is, in fact, unauditable in most cases.
And, although voting machines are built and programmed by private
companies, they are commissioned by public entities and paid for with
public money, money taken from citizens' taxes. However, there are no
universal EU regulations that force companies, or, indeed, public
organisations, to make the source code available to the citizens that
have paid for it, said Ms Reda.
Furthermore, she noted that, despite the fact Free Software technologies
(web servers, CMSs, email servers, and so on) are used extensively
throughout the public administration, the public sector assumes very
little responsibility in the way of giving back to the community via
patches or even bug reports.
Ms Reda said that the solution to this very dismal state of affairs is a
multi-pronged one. She commended the Free Software Foundation Europe for
its work in advocating for all software commissioned by public entities
and paid with public money, be made available under free/libre licenses
for everyone. She also noted that to get governments on the side of Free
Software it is essential to make them see its merits.
Only like this, she said, would it be possible to make legislators
regulate coherently in favour of free/libre technologies.
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== About the Free Software Foundation Europe ==
Free Software Foundation Europe is a charity that empowers users to
control technology. Software is deeply involved in all aspects of our
lives; and it is important that this technology empowers rather than
restricts us. Free Software gives everybody the rights to use,
understand, adapt and share software. These rights help support other
fundamental freedoms like freedom of speech, press and privacy.
The FSFE helps individuals and organisations to understand how Free
Software contributes to freedom, transparency, and self-determination.
It enhances users' rights by abolishing barriers to Free Software
adoption, encourage people to use and develop Free Software, and
provide resources to enable everyone to further promote Free Software
in Europe.
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= The Document Foundation and the FSFE strengthen their relationship =
[ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160817-01.sv.html ]
The Free Software Foundation (FSFE) is joining the Advisory Board of The
Document Foundation[1]. At the same time, The Document Foundation is
becoming an associated organisation of the FSFE[2].
The Free Software Foundation Europe's aim is to help people control
technology instead of the other way around. However, this is a goal
which no single organisation can achieve on its own. Associated
organisations are entities that share the FSFE's vision and support the
foundation and Free Software in general by encouraging people to use and
develop Free Software, by helping organisations understand how Free
Software contributes to freedom, transparency and self-determination,
and by removing barriers to Free Software adoption.
With this mutual expression of support, both organisations strengthen
one another in their fight to keep the general public in the
technological driver's seat. While the FSFE embodies the principles of
the community movement working in support of the adoption of Free
Software in companies, public administrations and for private citizens,
the Document Foundation turns principles and ethics into actual
products, putting a first class, fully-featured, and completely free
productivity suite in the hands of users.
"We are happy to welcome the Free Software Foundation Europe as a member
of our Advisory Board. Together, we will able to further develop the
adoption of Free Software in Europe, amongst public administrations and
enterprises", said Eike Rathke, a Director of The Document Foundation[3]
and a long time Free Software advocate and hacker.
"We believe it is important to join forces with all the organisations
active in Free Software around Europe," said Matthias Kirschner[4],
President of the Free Software Foundation Europe, "and work together to
reach our common goals. With our associated organisations we want to
show that we are a strong and cohesive movement, and we work to achieve
common objectives. To do this, we exchange ideas, coordinate efforts,
motivate each other, and find opportunities to work together on specific
projects. This is the case with The Document Foundation, steward of one
of the most successful Free Software projects: LibreOffice".
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1. https://www.documentfoundation.org/governance/advisory-board/
2. https://fsfe.org/associates/associates.sv.html
3. https://www.documentfoundation.org/governance/board/
4. https://fsfe.org/about/kirschner/kirschner.sv.html
== About the Free Software Foundation Europe ==
The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is a non-profit
non-governmental organisation active in many European countries and
involved in many global activities. Access to software determines
participation in a digital society. To secure equal participation in
the information age, as well as freedom of competition, the Free
Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) pursues and is dedicated to the
furthering of Free Software, defined by the freedoms to use, study,
modify and copy. Founded in 2001, creating awareness for these issues,
securing Free Software politically and legally, and giving people
Freedom by supporting development of Free Software are central issues
of the FSFE.
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Dear team,
this mailing list has just been migrated to a new server. The FSFE has
a longterm project to migrate a lot of our older lists to our newest
list server. As we do this, we automatically move all the settings,
content and other information to the new list server. We also forward
all mails that go to the old address, to the new address.
This means you should hopefully not have noticed that the list
moved. But it's a good habit to update the address used, especially if
you have mail filters on your side which rely on the mailing list
having a specific address.
Here are the relevant changes:
. The mailing list address is now fsfe-se(a)lists.fsfe.org
. The web interface for this list is available here:
https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-se
. For the list administrators, the list admin interface is here:
https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/admin/fsfe-se/
I hope you have not noticed the move and that the discussions on the
list will continue as before, but now on our new mailing list server.
Sincerely,
--
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Free Software Foundation Europe | jonas(a)fsfe.org
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= Compulsory Routers: what customers have to take care of now =
[ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160725-01.sv.html ]
Up until now, Internet service providers (ISPs) in Germany determined
the router users had to use to connect to the Internet. The user had no
say in this decision. This changes on August 1. A new law will allow
users choose the device that gets installed in their homes. The FSFE
wants to ensure everybody knows about their new rights and is asking
users to report cases in which ISPs try to avoid the new regulation.
"Compulsory Routers" are what we call the devices imposed on users,
forbidding them from using any other appliance to access the Internet.
Compulsory routers are often the subject of critical security flaws
which users can't legally or technically fix themselves. They are also
known to be incompatible with certain network devices and standards,
like IPv6, or to support only a small number of important features.
However, the legal situation was ambiguous and ISPs defined the first
router or modem after the wall socket as part of their network. They
could thus bar users from controlling the technology installed within
their own homes, despite the fact that the users were even paying for
the electricity that run the devices.
The Free Software Foundation Europe took up the fight to outlaw
Compulsory Routers in 2013, and we have finally won a major landmark
victory[1]: from August 1 onwards, clients of German internet providers
are allowed by law to use any terminal device they choose. Regardless of
whether it is a DSL or cable connection, the ISP will have to supply the
information you need to connect an alternative router to use the
Internet and telephone network.
== Help us track the implementation ==
The law is very clear with regard to your new rights, but, based on past
behaviours of ISPs, the FSFE must assume many providers will ignore the
regulation and will continue to try and force their clients to use their
default router.
ISPs will probably make the argument that the law only applies to new
customers, or that a connection to the Internet with alternative devices
will be unstable, or denying support to clients with devices other than
the ones they provide.
We want to make sure that these misbehaviours are made public and we
need your help for that. If you are a client of a German internet
provider, we ask you exercise your new right and start using an
alternative device, ideally one that runs Free Software.
Once your new device is up and running, we need you to provide us with
feedback on whether you had any issues while running your new router. We
will collect this data and confront providers that are not in compliance
with the new law. We have also created a wiki page[2] where we report
information, testing procedures, results, and user experiences.
== Further information ==
For more information on Compulsory Routers and why they are bad, please
visit our campaign page[3]. Also see the timeline of the most important
events[4] related to this campaign. To contribute to this and other FSFE
campaigns that defend your freedom, you can support us with a
donation[5] or by becoming a sustaining member[6].
== FSFE Summit 2016 ==
If you're interested in knowing more about how Free Software helps
defend other important rights, we will be holding the FSFE yearly summit
at the beginning of September in Berlin[7]. Come along and discover how
you can also help return the control over technology to people.
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1. https://fsfe.org/news/2015/news-20151105-01.sv.html
2. https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/CompulsoryRouters/Implementation/Germany
3. https://fsfe.org/activities/routers/index.sv.html
4. https://fsfe.org/activities/routers/timeline.sv.html
5. https://fsfe.org/donate/index.sv.html
6. https://fsfe.org/join
7. https://fsfe.org/summit16
== About the Free Software Foundation Europe ==
The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is a non-profit
non-governmental organisation active in many European countries and
involved in many global activities. Access to software determines
participation in a digital society. To secure equal participation in
the information age, as well as freedom of competition, the Free
Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) pursues and is dedicated to the
furthering of Free Software, defined by the freedoms to use, study,
modify and copy. Founded in 2001, creating awareness for these issues,
securing Free Software politically and legally, and giving people
Freedom by supporting development of Free Software are central issues
of the FSFE.
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= Software Heritage initiative to create an archive of Free Software code =
[ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160629-01.sv.html ]
The Free Software Foundation Europe supports the creation of the
Software Heritage initiative, a platform for the distribution,
advancement, and, especially, long-term preservation and archiving of
Free Software code. The Software Heritage initiative collects and
collates vast amounts of free licensed code to protect it for future
generations.
The importance of software in the modern world cannot be overstated.
Software is at the crux of all contemporary technological development
and has become essential for all areas of scientific research. Software
plays a pivotal role in our daily lives, our industries and our society.
Software has become the reflection of our technological, scientific and
cultural progress.
However, software is prone to disappear, either because it stops being
profitable, or projects get cancelled, or the code is deemed obsolete
and gets erased, or is left to fade on storage that physically degrades
over time.
The Software Heritage[1] initiative is created and funded by Inria[2].
It collects programs, applications and snippets of code distributed
under free licenses from a wide variety of active and defunct sources,
its aim being to protect code from sinking into oblivion. The
distributed and redundant back-end hardens the system against a
potentially disastrous losses of data and guarantees its availability
for users.
Users can check if a certain file exists within the system and propose
new sources the Software Heritage engine can explore in search of more
code to store. Soon users will also be able to find out where the code
originated from using the Provenance information feature, browse the
stored code, run full-text searches on all files, and download the
content.
The Heritage stores only Free Software, in other words, software that
can be used, studied, adapted and shared freely with others; and this is
because the Software Heritage initiative relies on being able to share
the software it stores. The Software Heritage website is designed to be
a useful tool for professionals, scientists, educators and end-users.
Users must be allowed to re-use the code in other products, cutting
development time and costs; engineers should be able to discover how
others solved certain problems; or compare the efficiency of different
solutions to the same problem. And, of course, researchers must have
explicit permission to study the evolution of code over time. This is
only possible if the code is distributed under a Free and Open Source
license.
Matthias Kirschner, President of the Free Software Foundation Europe,
says: "Software is the most important cultural technology of today's
society; it frames what we can and what we cannot do. Software shapes
our communication and culture, our economy, education and research, as
well as politics. It is important to preserve our collective knowledge
about how software has influenced humankind. Collecting source code
makes Software Heritage a valuable resource to understand how our
society worked at any given time, and to build upon knowledge from
humankind." The Software Heritage intiative ensures today's code will
be around for everybody in the future.
=== About Inria ===
Inria[3], the French National Institute for computer science and applied
mathematics, promotes "scientific excellence for technology transfer and
society". Graduates from the world's top universities, Inria's 2,700
employees rise to the challenges of digital sciences. With this open,
agile model, Inria is able to explore original approaches with its
partners in industry and academia and provide an efficient response to
the multidisciplinary and application challenges of the digital
transformation. Inria transfers expertise and research results to
companies (startups, SMEs and major groups) in fields as diverse as
healthcare, transport, energy, communications, security and privacy
protection, smart cities and the factory of the future.
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1. https://www.softwareheritage.org/
2. http://www.inria.fr/en/
3. http://www.inria.fr/en/
== About the Free Software Foundation Europe ==
The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is a non-profit
non-governmental organisation active in many European countries and
involved in many global activities. Access to software determines
participation in a digital society. To secure equal participation in
the information age, as well as freedom of competition, the Free
Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) pursues and is dedicated to the
furthering of Free Software, defined by the freedoms to use, study,
modify and copy. Founded in 2001, creating awareness for these issues,
securing Free Software politically and legally, and giving people
Freedom by supporting development of Free Software are central issues
of the FSFE.
http://fsfe.org/
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Hej,
den 26e maj kommer FSFE att finnas på plats på FOSS-North 2016 i
Göteborg. Själv kommer jag att vara där, likväl som vår vice-president
Alessandro Rubini.
Vi har också fått lov att ha ett (litet) bord med informationsmaterial
om FSFE för att prata om våra aktiviteter för de som är intresserade.
Om du är intresserad av att medverka, hör av dig till mig! Jag skulle
behöva hjälp att se till så att det finns folk där hela dagen :)
Men såklart, även om du bara besöker FOSS-North i alla fall, kom förbi
och säg hej!
Du kan hitta mer information om FOSS-North på http://foss-north.se/
Mvh
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Free Software Foundation Europe | jonas(a)fsfe.org
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= "Freedomvote": 10 questions about digital freedom for the Swiss national election =
[ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/2015/news-20150916-01.sv.html ]
In anticipation of the Swiss national parliament elections (Nationalrat-
/ Ständeratswahlen) on 18 October 2015, FSFE Switzerland starts the
„Freedomvote“[1] campaign today, in cooperation with the "Swiss Open
Systems User Group“ (/ch/open). The campaign offers an online portal
that lists those candidates who will run for election, and their opinion
towards Internet policy, Free Software, and open data formats.
The Freedomvote campaign aims to give voters guidance about the
candidates who are running for election. For many voters nowadays, it is
important what candidates think about aspects of Internet politics, such
as freedom and user rights in the digital age. However, many politicians
still try to avoid these topics. With its Freedomvote campaign, the FSFE
Switzerland wants to change that and bring Internet policy topics and
the use of Free Software into the political agenda. All candidates are
invited to answer diverse questions affecting digital user rights,
e-voting, net neutrality, open data, educational material, Free Software
and encryption. In addition, candidates are welcome to explicitly
explain their own position and provide answers to each question in a
free text field. Based on the answers of the candidates, voters who care
about digital rights, receive help to decide for whom they might vote
for. To get the best results, it is also possible to set up one's own
profile as a voter in order to match your distinct answers with those of
the candidates.
„To answer the ten questions, candidates can use our platform directly
themself and forward the answers via their party, or directly contact
us" says Simon Wächter from Freedomvote, "what we hope for is active
encouragement of candidates from all parties to our transparency
initiative. The more who participate, the more can the campaign help to
offer good guidance for the voters." FSFE Switzerland sends out
hundreds of mails and letters this week, to ask candidates for their
participation. You can help them by additionally asking the candidates
of your region about their participation, personally.
Besides the development and provision of Freedomvote by FSFE Switzerland
and /ch/open[2], the campaign is supported by various civil rights
organisations, such as Parldigi[3], Internet Society Switzerland
Chapter[4], Opendata.ch[5], Digitalle Allmend[6], and Willhelm Tux[7].
The underlying software of freedomvote.ch is self-developed and is
published as Free Software[8].
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1. https://freedomvote.ch
2. http://ch-open.ch/
3. http://www.digitale-nachhaltigkeit.ch/
4. http://www.isoc.ch/
5. http://opendata.ch/
6. http://allmend.ch/
7. http://www.wilhelmtux.ch/
8. https://freie.software/adfinis-sygroup/freedomvote
== About the Free Software Foundation Europe ==
The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is a non-profit
non-governmental organisation active in many European countries and
involved in many global activities. Access to software determines
participation in a digital society. To secure equal participation in
the information age, as well as freedom of competition, the Free
Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) pursues and is dedicated to the
furthering of Free Software, defined by the freedoms to use, study,
modify and copy. Founded in 2001, creating awareness for these issues,
securing Free Software politically and legally, and giving people
Freedom by supporting development of Free Software are central issues
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= "Freedomvote": 10 questions about digital freedom for the Swiss national election =
[ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/2015/news-20150916-01.sv.html ]
In anticipation of the Swiss national parliament elections (Nationalrat-
/ Ständeratswahlen) on 18 October 2015, FSFE Switzerland starts the
„Freedomvote“[1] campaign today, in cooperation with the "Swiss Open
Systems User Group“ (/ch/open). The campaign offers an online portal
that lists those candidates who will run for election, and their opinion
towards Internet policy, Free Software, and open data formats.
The Freedomvote campaign aims to give voters guidance about the
candidates who are running for election. For many voters nowadays, it is
important what candidates think about aspects of Internet politics, such
as freedom and user rights in the digital age. However, many politicians
still try to avoid these topics. With its Freedomvote campaign, the FSFE
Switzerland wants to change that and bring Internet policy topics and
the use of Free Software into the political agenda. All candidates are
invited to answer diverse questions affecting digital user rights,
e-voting, net neutrality, open data, educational material, Free Software
and encryption. In addition, candidates are welcome to explicitly
explain their own position and provide answers to each question in a
free text field. Based on the answers of the candidates, voters who care
about digital rights, receive help to decide for whom they might vote
for. To get the best results, it is also possible to set up one's own
profile as a voter in order to match your distinct answers with those of
the candidates.
„To answer the ten questions, candidates can use our platform directly
themself and forward the answers via their party, or directly contact
us" says Simon Wächter from Freedomvote, "what we hope for is active
encouragement of candidates from all parties to our transparency
initiative. The more who participate, the more can the campaign help to
offer good guidance for the voters." FSFE Switzerland sends out
hundreds of mails and letters this week, to ask candidates for their
participation. You can help them by additionally asking the candidates
of your region about their participation, personally.
Besides the development and provision of Freedomvote by FSFE Switzerland
and /ch/open[2], the campaign is supported by various civil rights
organisations, such as Parldigi[3], Internet Society Switzerland
Chapter[4], Opendata.ch[5], Digitalle Allmend[6], and Willhelm Tux[7].
The underlying software of freedomvote.ch is self-developed and is
published as Free Software[8].
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1. https://freedomvote.ch
2. http://ch-open.ch/
3. http://www.digitale-nachhaltigkeit.ch/
4. http://www.isoc.ch/
5. http://opendata.ch/
6. http://allmend.ch/
7. http://www.wilhelmtux.ch/
8. https://freie.software/adfinis-sygroup/freedomvote
== About the Free Software Foundation Europe ==
The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is a non-profit
non-governmental organisation active in many European countries and
involved in many global activities. Access to software determines
participation in a digital society. To secure equal participation in
the information age, as well as freedom of competition, the Free
Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) pursues and is dedicated to the
furthering of Free Software, defined by the freedoms to use, study,
modify and copy. Founded in 2001, creating awareness for these issues,
securing Free Software politically and legally, and giving people
Freedom by supporting development of Free Software are central issues
of the FSFE.
http://fsfe.org/
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= FSFE welcomes adoption of copyright report in EP's JURI committee =
[ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/2015/news-20150616-01.sv.html ]
In an important step towards modernising the EU's copyright laws, the
Legal Affairs committee of the European Parliament on Tuesday adopted a
report on the Copyright Directive by MEP Julia Reda.
By adopting the report with 23 votes in favour and 2 against, the
committee asks the European Commission to consider a number of important
updates to copyright as it works towards a revision of the EU Copyright
Directive.
"In a world built on information, copyright law is important in shaping
the ways in which we live and work," says Karsten Gerloff, FSFE's
president. "We hope that MEPs will further strengthen the rights of
users as the report moves towards a plenary vote."
FSFE, which provided input[1] to the MEPs on the Legal Affairs committe
ahead of the vote, views the adopted report as largely positive. The
committee generally supported the idea that copyright exceptions and
limitations should apply equally both on- and offline. The MEPs also
voted in favour of allowing authors to dedicate their works directly to
the public domain.
The JURI commmitte adopted language stating that technological measures
such as Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) should not stop users from
enjoying copyright exceptions and limitations. However, the adopted
report leaves out concrete measures to ensure that people can actually
enjoy the full use of works that they have acquired.
On the negative side, the text adopted today is lacking in some
important respects. It does not contain an explicit statement that
hyperlinks do not require a copyright license, so that this essential
building block of the web remains in danger.
Reda's proposal for an "open norm" akin to the "fair use" concept in the
US was significantly weakened. The adopted wording on text and data
mining is regrettably ambiguous. FSFE also regrets the deletion of
language that made a clear distinction between physical and
"intellectual property".
MEPs can still submit amendments to the report. The European Parliament
is scheduled to hold a plenary vote on July 9.
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