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At this point, I am ashamed of Denmark - one of the countries backing this idea (and if i am not misinformed the country who came up with it?). I have lived here for 30+ years and they do many things right, but recently the government has taken too many liberties and given itself way too much power to decide what people can do
This is also apparent on the opinion polls. The government (currently 3 more or less central parties) and especially the ruling party (theoretically left but sliding fast towards the center), have lost a lot of its backup from the public
https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/politik/meningsmaalinger
I agree completely other than one important detail: while they sell themselves as center left, absolute center, and center right, the government parties are in reality authoritarian right wing parties and have been for at least a decade and a half.
Especially when it comes to immigration policy and issues of state control/overreach like Chat Control.
You may be right. I am not very deep into DK politics, but to me, it seems like parties have transitioned to picking standing points from throughout the political range, as they see fit, and not have a standard stance depending on what side they are on. This, I feel is a good thing, and even though it appears to gather all parties in the center, it also gives them a wider and more nuanced approach.
Maybe placing political parties along a line, is no longer a valid approach
They did come up with this particular iteration, but the whole idea is inherited from previous EU administrations. It has been a long time goal of the EU to implement something like this. Doesn't excuse the Danish premiership though, as they could just as easily have dropped it, especially after the recent rejection, instead of adamantly keep changing the proposition until something sticks.
Very on par for Mette Frederiksen and her government in Denmark as well: Arrogant and authoritarian, seemingly with no care for the increasingly bad polling of which something like this doesn't help.