Hamburg court rules against Tillack (Freedom of press dead in EU)
It looks like RightWhale is right and the EU powers "follow the model of their former colonies in subsaharan Africa and the Middle East".
The more this stuff gets out I think the more trouble the EU is in. These kinds of civil rights violations are prime meat and should be used both by British and Polish anti-EU movements and in Sweden to bring pressure upon the government for a referendum. What's worse is that OLAF, the EU-wide audit agency, is itself apparently riddle with corruption, which is not a good sign. And what's even worse than that is that EU officials have a legal carte blanche.