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"Mr President, the extension of Europol’s mandate is not some new issue that has arisen after 11 September. It is, however, self-evident that, right now, there is a particularly great need for such an extension. Naturally, we need to exchange information with third countries’ police forces in order to help them combat crime, a fact that was emphasised by an as good as unanimous Parliament when we voted on the report on combating computer-related crime.
There are those who are anxious about Europol’s being given unduly large resources. They might like to reflect upon the consequences of Europol’s having 388 employees to cover a population larger than the United States’s, while the FBI has 27 000 employees. There is no comparison at all between the resources involved, nor between the activities concerned. Europol is not operational.
When information is transferred, it is incredibly important that we should continue to protect data and, as far as possible, to maintain personal privacy. The human rights we have laid down both in the European Convention and in the European Union’s Charter of Fundamental Rights are a characteristically European feature of which we should be proud and which we should also be sure to maintain. We must nonetheless beware of creating a Big Brother society. Just as Mr Turco emphasised, it is therefore important that Parliament be there to exercise its democratic control. It is quite unreasonable that these issues should be excluded from the structures of the EU and that issues which are so very important to people should be discussed in a largely empty Chamber.
The fact that crime statistics are being gathered is naturally welcome. There is something not quite right about the fact that the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction in Lisbon gathers a large quantity of statistics concerning drug addiction, while we have little in the way of statistics when it comes to the fight against crime. Europol naturally has an important role to fulfil in this area.
When it comes to the issue of whether or not Eurojust should be mentioned in this context, it has emerged that many people interpret the wording in terms of a desire to upset the balance of power between the executive and the judiciary. It should not, of course, be interpreted in that way. I do not, however, want any misunderstandings to arise concerning this matter. To avoid misunderstandings, it would therefore be better to change the Eurojust wording.
Finally, I want to thank Mr Turco for having dealt with the Swedish and Belgian initiative so well."@en1
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