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"Madam President, I feel that Commissioner Liikanen and Mr Haarder have pulled off a difficult operation successfully, achieving a result that we were unable to achieve even during the work in committee – namely, unanimity in Parliament. I endorse all they have said thus far but I would like to add a specific point of my own. We are continuing to focus, as Mr Vattimo did in his last speech, on the Anglo-American system of systematic, blanket interception of communications filtered by search engines, but we are continuing to ignore the fact – and we are all responsible for we all know what is going on – that these systems are also being used in European countries such as Germany, Holland and France. In actual fact, we have a situation where some Union Member States are intercepting the activities of the institutions, citizens and firms of other Member States. These indiscriminate systems of data and document interception and communication violate the fundamental right of respect for one’s private life which is enshrined in Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Article 6 of the Treaty on European Union. As Commissioner Liikanen stated just now, these systems flagrantly violate the European citizens’ freedoms, and thus undermine the concept of free trade and the security of the Union too. We consider these violations to be unacceptable, and the Commissioner’s words, tossed as they were into the middle of the debate, will only be sufficient if they are borne out by subsequent action. I would just like to remind the Commissioner and the Minister of item 9 of Parliament’s recommendations, calling for the adoption of a system of democratic control of the independent European intelligence services – to which we have received no response – and of other related intelligence activities at European level. Basically, we cannot address such sensitive points relating to the interception of communications and the supervision of police and intelligence services without dealing with a key issue which is a source of discrimination – judicial and parliamentary control, or democratic control."@en1

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