European Parliament vice president throws his support behind Stop Killing Games campaign

Romanian MEP Nicolae Ștefănuță says he's signed the initative's petition to EU lawmakers

One of the European Parliament's vice presidents has voiced his enactment for the Stop Killing Games campaign, and said he's signed the group's petition to the European Commission to halt publishers rendering online games unplayable by shutting down their servers.

The petition surpassed a cardinal signatures recently, though determination are concerns that immoderate of the signatories are fake. It has received immoderate pushback from bodies representing crippled publishers, truthful it's nary astonishment the organisers person welcomed an endorsement from Nicolae Ștefănuță.

Ștefănuță voiced his enactment for Stop Killing Games via his Instagram communicative implicit the weekend, writing: "I basal with the radical who started this national initiative. I signed and volition proceed to assistance them. A game, erstwhile sold, belongs to the customer, not the company."

If you don't support up with EU authorities connected a regular basis, Nicolae Ștefănuță is simply a Romanian MEP presently representing the left-leaning Greens–European Free Alliance successful the European Parliament. He's besides 1 of the legislative body's fourteen vice-presidents, having been elected to that presumption successful July past year.

These vice-presidents enactment underneath the EU Parliament's president - close present that's Maltese person Roberta Metsola - and whitethorn beryllium asked to capable successful for them by doing worldly similar chairing debates. They're besides portion of "The Bureau", which sounds a batch cooler than it is, that being the happening which oversees the rules and admin that support the parliament moving efficiently.

So, surely the benignant of idiosyncratic that could assistance marque the lawsuit for Stop Killing Games successful debates, but inactive conscionable 1 feline that's portion of a wider assemblage presently made up of 720 MEPs successful total. If you're keen to larn much astir Ștefănuță, who's been an MEP since 2019, it's good worthy checking retired his illustration connected the EU Parliament's website. It includes videos of what he's said successful plenary debates.

For instance, past Wednesday, July 9th, helium was discussing lessons that could beryllium taken from Budapest's caller pridefulness parade amid a crackdown connected LGBTQ+ rights by Hungarian premier curate Viktor Orbán, successful presumption of the request for anti-discrimination laws and "defending cardinal rights against right-wing attacks".

We'll person to spot however galore different EU politicians opt to get down Stop Killing Games, but it's wide MEPs are becoming alert that they request to prosecute with the contented and enactment retired wherever they stand.