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Will Sweden's wiretapping plans become accepted into law June 17?
See link in comments to BBC website for further info.
Background:
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/05/037201&from=rss
"The bill is scheduled to come up for a vote on June 17. According to the Swedish Pirate Party, a majority of parliament currently backs the bill."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/04/sweden_wiretap_bill/
"the opposition parties are expected to make use of a constitutional regulation enabling them to postpone a parliamentary ruling until next year, meaning that the bill would come into law in 2009 at the earliest."
http://www.thelocal.se/7452/20070530/
Settlement details:
As reported by a major mainstream news source.
'Bill' refers to the bill being proposed to the Swedish parliament. It is provided in the second newsarticle in the background information.
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Suspend date: Mon 16th Jun 8:59am PDT Settlement date: Fri 20th Jun 12:15pm PDTPrediction cut-off: Predictions on this question after Mon 16th Jun 8:59am PDT have been voided because they were made after the question could be settled
Initial likelihoods: Bill gets postponed: 50%, Bill passes: 25%, Bill is rejected: 20%, Other: 5%
Action history:
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pryd: I lost my freedom, but at least I won some H$.
Actually the question was not quite correct. The debate was june 17, but the actual voting was done june 18.
The link below is the list of yesterday debats and desitions for the Swedish parlament.
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.riksdagen.se%2Ftemplates%2FR_HtmlCallPage____15278.aspx&sl=sv&tl=en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
glenda78748: has this been decided yet? 
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: See link in comments to BBC website for further info.
Suspend date: Mon 16th Jun 8:59am PDT Settlement date: Fri 20th Jun 12:15pm PDTPrediction cut-off: Predictions on this question after Mon 16th Jun 8:59am PDT have been voided because they were made after the question could be settled
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http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/17/0126243
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7463333.stm
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