TFA mentions "european governments" but this legislation is proposed by a bunch of european members of parliament who in no way represent any governments and much less the commission or the union. In short it tries to depict a group of old farts as an overreaching snooping authority.

I wonder who could have a vested interest in depicting the EU as a repressive regime...

> this legislation is proposed by a bunch of european members of parliament who in no way represent any governments and much less the commission

Well, here is the guy from where that comes from, the minister of justice of Denmark. He certainly represents a good part of Denmark, even though he may be irrelevant to any other EU country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hummelgaard

This legislation is not proposed by members of parliament, only the commission can draft legislation, the parliament can only approve it.

Are you saying that a neutral observer would not see this as repressive?