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"Mr President, the European Parliament was quite right to become fully involved in monitoring the routine transfer of European Union citizens’ personal data to the United States. Control by the European Parliament is acceptable. Refusal to transfer data is not. It seems that data transfer can be justified on the grounds of the terrorist threat, posed mainly by Islamic extremists. Nonetheless, such a threat cannot be perceived and exploited as a good pretext for the uncontrolled and unrestrained restriction of citizens’ rights. We must not become extremists ourselves. We must not retreat from the front line of the war against terror under the banner of citizens’ rights. On the other hand, we need to control those who would like to control us in the interests of that war. I refer to the monitoring our flights, financial affairs and privacy. If the justifiable war against global terrorism is not to transform into a dictatorship and a war against citizens’ freedoms, it must itself be subject to strict scrutiny by the European Parliament."@en1
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