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I voted against the motion with great indignation: we would never have imagined that we might be spied on as Europeans, as free citizens, as businesses, not just by our Nato allies but even by our European partners as well.
There needs to be an enquiry into the United Kingdom’s behaviour in order to understand fully not just the government’s responsibilities but also what European sentiments link the United Kingdom to the rest of the European Union and even whether these sentiments and political will actually exist.
There are certain questions we must ask. Since this espionage system exists, why was it not used to prevent the violence which took place during the international summits, most recently the summits in Gothenburg and Genoa? It there any plan to dismantle the system or to make it democratically useful to all so that we can achieve even the globalisation of personal thoughts? How are the United Kingdom, and Germany too, going to explain this betrayal to the European citizens? Could it be that the slowdown in European cohesion, which is becoming increasingly politically and culturally insipid and increasingly weak economically, is partly caused by new information being received and disseminated using Echelon?
These are important questions which require a committee of inquiry to be set up."@en1
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