Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-03-31-Speech-3-160"
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"In repudiating the Commission, which had negotiated an agreement with the United States allowing it to consult the ‘passenger files’ of airlines providing transatlantic flights for the purpose of combating terrorism, Parliament has taken a decision that may be criticised on two counts.
Firstly, it can only confuse our partners by making them doubt our determination to combat terrorism, when only last Friday the European Council adopted a seemingly very resolute declaration to do precisely that. Secondly, it overstates the sensitivity of the ‘passenger files’ problem, since that data is hardly confidential, especially so far as the police authorities responsible for protecting the lives of those very same passengers are concerned.
The European Parliament has made this false move because it wants to boost its own importance and acquire the image of a defender of freedom; it may also be due to an element of anti-American demagogy and, lastly, to provocation from the Commission, which has clearly exceeded its powers. To crown it all, the national parliaments have been sidelined completely. It is a fine mess for something that seemed so simple at the outset."@en1
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