In an open letter to the Irish government on Thursday (23 October), signed by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, noyb, ARTICLE 19, the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom, plus 40 others, highlights the conflict of interest Sweeney brings to a position that is supposed to police the same firms in which she used to work.
The European common market really doesn’t work if countries are using it to enrich themselves at the expense of others. I really do not want big tech to be in Ireland, because Ireland doesn’t enforce any data protection rules. I also do not want gambling sites from Malta preying on users in my country with nobody to enforce the rules. And I also do not want companies moving their HQs to Luxembourg for lower taxes. The EU really is broken here.