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"Mr President, firstly I should like to welcome Mrs Lehtomäki. I simply want to say to her that I have listened to what she has said and I think it necessary to point out the following: our government takes the form of the Council of Ministers or European Council. Although it may not have the legal or political tools to take a decision regarding this scandal – by which I mean the SWIFT affair – which has followed on from that involving clandestine flights, there is nothing to stop it affirming its moral virtue and saying publicly what it thinks about it - something that, as far as I know, it has still not done.
The second thing I wish to say is that I have taken careful note of what the Vice-President of the Commission, Mr Frattini, said about neither he nor his department knowing anything about this case. I share the opinion of my two fellow Members, Mrs Klamt and Mrs Roure, who have just spoken on this matter. In Europe, and more specifically in the EU, we have progressively constructed a state governed by the rule of law in which any transfer of personal data to third countries must, of absolute necessity, obey national or European rules. The first of these rules states that any transfer must be authorised by a judicial authority, and no one else. Neither a State nor a bank is the owner of the information of which it makes use. If the data concerned relates to companies, it is the property of those companies. If it relates to individuals, it is the property of those individuals. There is no authorisation for others to use it in transactions, to appropriate it, to pass it on to others or to dispose of it in heaven knows what other ways.
I would point out that the legal instrument exists, and I would recall what Mrs Roure said just now to the effect that it would be a really very important step if we were to succeed in sorting out this matter under the Finnish Presidency.
I should also like to say one last thing. There is a French proverb that reads, ‘Do not trust my friends; as for my enemies, they are for me to take care of’. The enemy is terrorism, and our friends are the Americans. After the clandestine flights, the abduction of European citizens rightly or wrongly under suspicion and the illegal transfers of prisoners using aircraft landing on European soil, we now learn that, friend of ours though it may be, a power in alliance with ourselves has been rooting around in our bank accounts. When will the blood samples start to be taken? When shall we start having to submit details of births and so forth? Emphatically, enough is enough. Parliament really does need to put a stop to this type of thing.
I shall conclude by saying that, if I have properly understood the matter, terrorism is the enemy of our freedoms and, in return, liberty is the enemy of terrorism. It is certainly not the enemy of ordinary people. In this area, too, the United States now needs to decide which side it is on."@en1
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