Green MEP, Eva Joly said, "I believe this proposal is a strong way of encouraging integrity and responsive government around the world, including in Iceland. In my work investigating corruption I have seen how important it is to have have robust mechanisms to get information out to the public. Iceland, with its fresh perspectives and courageous, independent people seems to be the perfect place to initiate such an effort towards global transparency and justice." There are hopes that the initiative could provide a boost to the isle's employment as it could attract publishers, looking for protection under strict data privacy laws. The Initiative state on their website that, "a keen interest has developed among the foreign press in relation to this legislative proposal, perhaps because all over the world the freedom to write news is increasingly being smothered. In their mind Iceland could become the anti-dote to tax havens: a journalism paradise."