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"Commissioner Bolkestein, we will never agree on the balance between security and freedom if we do not first agree on the fact that this balance must be put into practice in respect of the law. Commissioner Bolkestein, for 13 months the law of 15 countries of the European Union and even Community regulations have been violated every day. You have not dealt with this. We should not have gone into negotiations such as these in the position of weakness of a party willing to give up respect for and enforcement of its own law. Of course, today we are in a weak position because we were already in a weak position when we entered negotiations. The US security authorities can in no way demand that airlines illegally transfer personal data. This is only possible because you, Commissioner, all of you, the European Commission, the Member States and the majority of those guaranteeing privacy accepted all of this. There could have been an alternative solution: a solution, for example, that provided for the preparation by the US security authorities of simple visa mechanisms, on the basis of which the individual would provide personal data, not to the airline company for commercial purposes, but to the security authorities. You did not want to implement this solution because, just as the United States is doing, you are preparing to allow data that is collected for commercial purposes to be used for security purposes. This is contrary to the European Convention on Human Rights. Combating terrorism by tolerating illegality for 13 months is a true picture of what this Europe is doing; and ‘Mr Terrorism’ has been appointed on the same basis. Europol and Eurojust do not provide for any democratic control, or for any control by the Court of Justice. This is no way to build an antiterrorist Europe!"@en1

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