The EFF in the EU
The EFF is located in downtown San Francisco in nice and cosy rooms filled with stickers ("MP3 is not a crime") and books. The organizations does great work in protecting civil liberties on the Internet, but it is worried about the developments in Europe. The reason is simple. Legislation in the EU is affecting the situation in the US and vice versa. And the one-time representative of EFF in the EU, Cory Doctorow of Boingboing.net, is no concentrating on writing and on a fulbright scholarship which brings him to the US.
Meanwhile, copyright fights and privacy issues become more and more complex in the EU and the existing EFF-affiliated organizations (EFF does no franchising so anyone is free to start their own EFF - Italy has four!) seem sometimes to be to weak to actually offer the qualified and legal resistance the is so badly needed to suggestions that will inhibit and destroy civili liberties on the Net. What is needed is more legal activism, the EFF thinks, and less discussion lists.
This is probably true. We will have to look at this again soon.