According to a mail sent from Swedish liberal-conservative MEP Charlotte Cederschiöld, the real reason behind this resolution is to protect traditional media from competition. This is highly interesting as Mikko has claimed there are completely different motives behind her scheme...

Mikko is a journalist by training and profession and her report stresses the need to have bloggers publicise their cnflicts of interest because they can "maliciously" "polute" the public space. She's obviously not seeing the beam in her own eye...

When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done. — John M. Keynes