In November 2019 the EU Whistleblower Directive came into force. Whistleblowing has been described as a human right and a freedom fundamental to democracy. But it is not always straightforward to understand concrete cases of reporting wrongdoing in terms of abstract political philosophy. This paper uses a discussion between Berlin and Skinner about what negative freedom is, as a theoretical framework to understand the struggles of a campaigning platform of trade unions and civil society organizations, in the coming about of the EU Whistleblower Directive. The paper is empirically based on a document analysis of two Resolutions in the European Parliament, the European Commission’s proposal text, the approved text in the European Parliament, and messages on the listserv of the campaigning platform between February 2017 and April 2019. The paper provides insights on how whistleblowing freedom relates to public interest and autonomy.

欧盟举报指令于2019年11月生效。举报被描述为一项人权和对民主至关重要的自由。但是，从抽象政治哲学的角度理解举报不法行为的具体案例并不总是那么容易。本文使用柏林和斯金纳之间关于否定自由是什么的讨论，作为理解欧盟举报人指令即将来临的工会和民间社会组织竞选平台的斗争的理论框架。该论文是基于对欧洲议会的两项决议，欧洲委员会的提案文本，欧洲议会中的批准文本以及竞选平台在2017年2月至2019年4月之间的消息进行的文件分析得出的经验。