trialogue

The EU is finalising the new rules through its trialogue process, in which the European commission, council and parliament negotiate a final version of the text.

������ began as dialogue, gathered energy as trialogue, and peaked as pentalogue, soon topples like a Babel tower and disperses into monologues of unconsoled dissociation: five separate “friends” unable to communicate, unable to connect, unable even to remember, nattering to themselves like lunatics, haunting the hallways, counting the stairs.

With Thomas Bock, now a professor of psychiatry and psychotherapy at the University of Hamburg, she developed a “trialogue” initiative in 1989, designed to encourage conversation between patients, friends and relatives, and mental-health professionals.

“Any amendment would mean breaking the trialogue agreement, leaving no time to reconsider a new text before the European elections, and leaving European citizens, businesses and the creative sector adrift in the Digital Single Market,” it said.

Last September, a narrow majority for Article 13 could only be found in the Parliament after a small business exception was included that was much stronger than the foul deal France and Germany are now proposing – but there’s unfortunately no reason to believe that Parliament negotiator Axel Voss will stand his ground and insist on this point in trialogue.