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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Mrs in 't Veld may be unwell physically, she is still in excellent form verbally. That being so, I should like to carry on where she left off.
I still feel that we are very much running behind the facts. When it became evident that the United States collected credit card data, as well as other personal data from our passengers, it was a scandal, and we as MEPs wanted a regulation in place, and in most cases, the governments did not want anything, except that if rules were broken, they wanted this to be done quietly; eventually they were forced into a form of action. With SWIFT, we saw a repeat of past events: the government mounted a low-level investigation, which will hopefully culminate in some sort of action, and the question is indeed: are we now entirely convinced that this is it? The Commission is quite clear-cut when it says that although it is not in any event aware of any developments, it does not rule them out either. I should like a response from the Council to this. Do you consider it conceivable and what will you do now to know for certain? We are always saying that we are partners with the United States, which is true, for that is what we are, and we have a great deal of work to do. This also means, though, that you are entitled to know what your friends are getting up to. I would therefore like to find out from the Council how it intends to address the issue in order to know exactly what data are being collected of our citizens in all kinds of areas.
According to the Council, it is hard to conclude a fresh agreement, because the United States is not so keen on this data protection. There is, however, a limit to the level of blackmail we are willing to accept. You cannot say that we have to reach agreement, at any cost, if at a given moment in time, the price we need to pay is too high. It could, in fact, be quite funny, once we have sunk as low as we can, to draw the line at some point. This may imperil the landing rights, but will, at the same time mobilise quite a bit of opposition, including in the United States, because it is true that although the US administration would very much like to force this through, there is much support for our position among the parliamentarians."@en1
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