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This is a matter of the utmost importance and one which should fundamentally fall within the competence of each individual country. For this very reason, it is unacceptable that the Council should have declassified the text of the two draft agreements with the USA, only one month before these, the first agreements in this sphere between the EU and a third country, were due to be signed.
These agreements are all the more significant in political terms because they are being signed at a time when ‘security’ measures are being implemented that endanger citizens’ rights, guarantees and freedoms and when the US is holding hundreds of people under arrest at its military base in Guantánamo, without having accused them or put them on trial, or when it demands that other States give it total immunity from the International Criminal Court.
The current wording of the agreements raises some fundamental issues, such as extradition to a country which still applies the death penalty and which has legislation that in the name of the ‘war on terrorism’, breaches fundamental rights; personal data protection, applied retroactively, and a lack of control, specifically of the so-called joint investigation teams.
Whilst criticising some aspects of the agreements’ content, the EP’s recommendation supports their broad thrust, and so we have voted against it."@en1
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