Either way, if you look at how differently France (even analytics cookies are “necessary”) and the UK (fewer cookies are “necessary”, but implied consent suffices) not so much transposed the Direcitve into national law but interpret their own national laws in light of the Directive, and if you take into account that Germany so far seems to have no idea at all how transpose the Directive at all, the Directive’s ultimate goal – harmonising the law throughout the EU – is very unlikely to be achieved.
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