On Thursday 14 April the European Parliament gave the green light to the controversial Directive on trade secrets. The text seeks to combat industrial espionage and protect employed workers but it says nothing about those who reveal information about their former employers. The same day, MEPs also adopted new personal data protection rules.
Threats made by the law firm Mossack Fonseca (of Panama Papers scandal fame) to drag the media through the courts had no effect on the vote by MEPs over the Trade Secrets Directive, which had achieved an informal agreement by the Council of Ministers at the end of 2015. 503 MEPs voted in favor as compared with 131 against. “Combatting economic and industrial espionage of which our European businesses are the victims, protecting our innovation and research, defending our European competitiveness
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