Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-09-05-Speech-3-040"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-09-05"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:”Echelon”2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010905.2.3-040"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-09-05-Speech-3-0412
lpv:speaker	lp:Reino Paasilinna2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Suomen Sosialidemokraattinen Puolue/Finlands Socialdemokratiska Parti (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to thank Gerhard Schmid for his excellent work. Wiretapping and spying are an intolerable invasion of people’s privacy and are in direct contravention of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. When the Cold War ended, a massive system that had reached the pinnacle of its development sought a fresh role: it would seem to have gone from spying on enemies to spying on friends. It was exactly the same in NATO: when the communist system ended the highly paid personnel who depicted images of enmity suddenly looked around for new roles to play, and they appear to have found them. It even feels as if a sort of bellicose mood somehow lingers in the United States of America. They are now building a missile shield against a threat that is actually hard to see. Furthermore, certain recent selfish moves on the part of the new US administration seem bewildering to us here in multicultural Europe. What is actually happening over there? Perhaps we ought to go and take another look, as only one in three of our American colleagues have a passport. They are notoriously not the most widely travelled of people. I think we must now establish a watertight agreement at charter level that we do not engage in industrial espionage amongst one another, and our most important trading partner and friend, the United States, must be persuaded to adhere to this principle. At the same time we must ensure that we are able to check that nobody is violating the privacy of European Union citizens. And thirdly, here in the appropriate committees, we must continually monitor the situation to ensure that that is what is happening. We have important work to do in this area."@en1

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