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"The agreements between the United States and the EU are, of course, really about integrating the EU countries’ and the United States’s criminal law and rules of criminal procedure or, at any rate, essential aspects of these. The agreements should provoke protests from any serious politician specialising in the law. These agreements represent the current low point in the development of the EU’s legal policy. In the Nordic countries, specialists in the field thought that the low point had been reached with the two framework decisions concerning the European arrest warrant and measures for combating terrorism, but matters are now still worse. Note that the only professional investigation implemented by the institutions of the EU concerning these crucial issues of legal policy are open to serious criticism on the grounds of principle due to the fact that, in the context of the rights that are a crucial part of our democratic basis of values, the EU’s acts violate a range of basic principles in the fields of criminal law and procedure.
We are concerned here with what is termed the EU network of independent experts in basic rights which, on 31 March of this year, issued a comprehensive report on, as they put it, the balance between freedom and security. Has anyone within the EU system attended to the criticism by the group of experts that the acts compromise legal certainty? Definitely not.
As I say, these agreements make matters still worse. The EU system and the Member States will now, in the first place, accept the extradition of citizens of the Member States for criminal prosecution and imprisonment in the United States, which is a banana republic in terms of legal policy. Quite a few speakers have referred to the scandal in Guantánamo Bay, where EU citizens are being detained and mistreated under circumstances that decisively violate international law and basic legal principles.
It is incomprehensible that an agreement can be entered into with a juridico-political banana republic. The American investigation services will, moreover, subsequently be permitted to operate within the Member States. A year’s secret negotiations were conducted in advance and, as the Council put it, protecting the Council’s negotiations was a more important interest than democratic scrutiny. Can we sink any deeper? I also refer to the minority opinion on the report, which I have been a party to issuing on behalf of the Confederal Group of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left."@en1
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