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On the other hand, assuming that the following are true:

* The activity "has been expressly permitted by the European legislator"

* The person in question continued to threaten / press legal action

Doesn't it make sense to be able to ask for damages? IOW, shouldn't we be intimidating people against making baseless legal threats?

Obviously if either of the above two are false, then the legal firm in question are in violation of professional ethics and need to be hauled up before the German equivalent of the Bar Association.



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