[jjani]

Nowadays the biggest EU parties are ones that are effectively against the EU, so they're using the most effective way to kill it: make their citizens hate it by passing such laws. If you create a diagram of "pro-EU" and "pro-Chat scanning" EU parliament parties, 90% will be in the two quadrants: "pro-anti" and "anti-pro".

Yes, this proposal has been around since long before those parties got as big as they are now, but even back then the quadrants were roughly similar, and as such the level of support (including now looking to pass, unlike before) has also roughly been in step with the growth of those parties.

[Gud]

This is not just being championed by anti EU parties.

I don’t think this is a fair explanation of what’s going on.