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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the creation of a real European area of freedom, security and justice quite clearly constitutes one of the fundamental political priorities of the European Union and a major preoccupation for all European citizens. This is why I wish first of all to thank my colleagues on the Committee on Budgets, and in particular our general rapporteur, Mr Garriga Polledo, for supporting and putting to the vote in this House most of the amendments submitted by the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. Of these, several are aimed specifically at strengthening the European Union’s capacity to combat terrorism. This involves
an increase in Eurojust’s operating appropriations and the inclusion of a pilot project in the budget intended to enhance coordination, throughout the EU, of the resources and activities for preventing and combating terrorist threats. We have also proposed measures to strengthen the ways in which all Europeans show solidarity with the victims of terrorist acts.
Of the other priorities, I should like once again to highlight two of them, which are in our view of particular significance. We propose, Commissioner, to hold in reserve the bulk of the appropriations requested on passengers’ rights. We are aware of the disagreement between Parliament and the Commission as regards the level of protection for the personal data that the airlines have to provide to the American customs authorities. If we vote for the proposed amendment, the appropriations will remain frozen for as long as the Commission fails to propose an active rather than passive system for the transmission of data, as it has undertaken to do several times and as Parliament has asked it to do.
Secondly, and I particularly address these remarks to the President-in-Office of the Council, we propose to hold in reserve all of the appropriations earmarked for the External Borders Agency. In order to be operational and effective, Mr President, this Agency needs headquarters – permanent headquarters. We ask the Council to establish such headquarters urgently and preferably before the end of this year. Mr President, you have already settled many problems and I think you are capable of settling this one before leaving office. Thank you in advance."@en1
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