How to find EU explanetory memorandums

Linked post gives detail. The absolute shit-show of fake PDFs comes amid the eur-lex site’s restricted access that blocks Tor users, which means we can only reach laws that are mirrored on archive.org. And only if the builtin search tool can be avoided. (update) eur-lex was open access 10 months ago.

How to find EU explanetory memorandums - Sinistraverso

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The linked article suggests looking at the “explanetory memorandum” of an EU law to do a deeper dive on it. Searching for it is a shit-show. The page showing a particular law shows the full text and a large selection of language and format (pdf, text, html), which is good, but nowhere on these pages is there a link to an “explanatory memorandum”. The advanced search page makes no mention of it. I actually had to do a general web search from a non-EU site and sort through a lot of garbage to dig up a link. The URL was cryptic and date-specific, so no way to simply reform an URL to get an explanatory memorandum for any given law. BTW, what exactly is the explanatory memorandum? Is it always just a proposal before a law is created, or is it ever a post-enactment analysis with further detail? It seems like the recitals in the preamble already exist to give rationale so the original proposal would be a bit redundant. (update) I just realised the web hit goes to www.europarl.europa.eu, not eur-lex.europa.eu. But the search tool is blunt and non-intuitive… not sure which filter to use. (update 2) woah, more of a shit-show than I thought. The parliament site had the explanatory memorandum in a cryptic URL, but then when I search on that site for the doc there is an overview page that has a buried link to the explanatory memorandum on eur-lex. (update 3) woah! what a shit show! The PDF links on the eur-lex site are fake. The *.pdf file is actually JavaScript! If you run the JS, it’s like a shitty download manager that presents another HTML page. Then /those/ PDF URLs are also fake. The only way to reach the PDF is using PDF.js inside a gui browser. The EU is most certainly not adhering to its own open data policy. [https://media.fedia.io/f7/3b/f73b502bfc2d38533b367bc38d50dec0340e3c89b89f9a0009e5521fc1e8ba43.jpg]

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