Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-01-31-Speech-4-035"
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"Mr President, I would like to focus on something that may seem minor, but which has become seriously worse during 2007 and affects millions of people: security in European airports.
The European Commission and the Council have allowed and are allowing terrorism prevention in airports to be managed as if it were a transport policy.
Freedoms are being limited and rights restricted through procedures designed for the logistical and technical standards for aeroplanes and trains. As a result citizens are being left with no protection against abuse and limitations of rights are being approved with no assessment of proportionality or evaluation of effectiveness. Men and women are being treated, at times, like livestock at the checkpoints by security officers who do not know the rules they are applying or the exceptions to those rules, because the rules have been declared secret.
I ask the Commission – and Mr Frattini in particular – to re-establish their authority in this area; and I ask the Council to examine it seriously.
We have turned airports into areas in a state of emergency where neither the law nor the most basic guarantees apply, but rather police authority with no type of control."@en1
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