Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-03-29-Speech-1-073"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-03-29"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Protection of personal data of air passengers2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040329.7.1-073"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-03-29-Speech-1-0742
lpv:speaker	lp:Charlotte Cederschiöld2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 vice-president; European Parliament (2002-01-15--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2002-03-08--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the United States (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 vice-president; Parliament's Bureau (2002-01-15--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Moderata samlingspartiet (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the EU must of course be part of the international fight against terrorism, and the conclusions from last week’s European Council also show this. The conclusions offer a clearer analysis of the issues surrounding the guarantees of legal certainty and the democratic control that is to safeguard the measures concerned. It is high time that the EU took seriously the balance between, on the one hand, combating terrorism and other crime and, on the other hand, preserving fundamental rights. The new terrorism tsar should work in tandem with a privacy tsar. If the political will existed, it should be possible right now – before the Constitution has entered into force – to guarantee democratic scrutiny. The EU must not gamble away respect for privacy and private life. Europe is a forerunner in this area, and Article 29 of the committee’s objections gives rise to great concern. The objective is, of course, a global solution that has to provide people with the same high level of legal certainty. The fight against terrorism is much more difficult and needs to be tackled in a much greater variety of ways. This solution will not do away with all forms of terrorism, but it looks sometimes as though people believe it will. Finally, I wish to point out the following. It is an extremely unsatisfactory situation we are in. Commissioner Bolkestein has just shown this through his speech. Even before Parliament adopts a position on the issue, the Council has gone and stated that it intends to accept the American demands, leading one to wonder why, in such a situation, Parliament has to have an opinion at all. Irrespective of how the voting goes on this issue, I would call upon the Commission tirelessly to go on striving for better protection of legal certainty, as well as for protection against terrorism in many forms other than just the present one."@en1

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