“Start-ups need special services more than anyone in order to have a chance of keeping up with large internet providers,” he argued.

“By our reckoning, they would pay a couple of percent for this in the form of revenue-sharing”.

Thank you EU :-(

I wonder if they could introduce a tax to counter this. With a traffic shaping tax for the last mile. And tax free net neutral lines. Bonus benefit would be, secret traffic shaping and blackmailing Startups would be tax fraud.

I agree. The EU parliament royally fucked up this, thanks to the scaremongering tactics of the EU ISPs - or their money.