In this specific case - because Parliament has rejected this law 50 times. Yes, really that much, they've been at it since 11 May 2022. Governments really want access to people's chats, and parliament really does not want to give it to them. Not the EU parliament, not member state parliaments. Almost all of them.
The EU Commission has the power to force this law through, over the objections of all EU member state parliaments and the EU parliament and only the EU Council has the power to stop them. So by allying with the council the EU Commission is hoping to force parliament by threatening them with worse, and showing that the Council will not intervene if they do force worse through.
In general there is discordance, because the EU countries are forced into the union because of the need to compete with other large players like US and China, not because they want to. So every EU country wants to be part of the EU, but they don't want that to mean anything and don't want to give up even the slightest bit of control to the EU. And that's ignoring animosities, such as that France really does not want Germany to have any say whatsoever in what happens in France, or that Spain wants to repress Barcelona's separatism and 100 other issues.
The EU constitution disaster, and that the outcome of that effort was literally worse than the EU imagined was even possible when they started it is a good illustration of the problem.
In this specific case - because Parliament has rejected this law 50 times. Yes, really that much, they've been at it since 11 May 2022. Governments really want access to people's chats, and parliament really does not want to give it to them. Not the EU parliament, not member state parliaments. Almost all of them.
The EU Commission has the power to force this law through, over the objections of all EU member state parliaments and the EU parliament and only the EU Council has the power to stop them. So by allying with the council the EU Commission is hoping to force parliament by threatening them with worse, and showing that the Council will not intervene if they do force worse through.
In general there is discordance, because the EU countries are forced into the union because of the need to compete with other large players like US and China, not because they want to. So every EU country wants to be part of the EU, but they don't want that to mean anything and don't want to give up even the slightest bit of control to the EU. And that's ignoring animosities, such as that France really does not want Germany to have any say whatsoever in what happens in France, or that Spain wants to repress Barcelona's separatism and 100 other issues.
The EU constitution disaster, and that the outcome of that effort was literally worse than the EU imagined was even possible when they started it is a good illustration of the problem.