Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-04-23-Speech-3-050"
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"Ladies and gentlemen, my voters in the Czech Republic also wonder whether the amount of personal data and information required by the US for the proclaimed fight against terrorism in order to grant a visa is acceptable. At the same time I would like to remind you that the European Union has not been sufficiently active in advocating the rightful interests of its new Member States regarding US visa exemptions. The fear of complicating visa relations for the old Member States of the Union simply played into the hands of Czech officials looking after their own interests.
What is more, although the government in Prague denies this, it is a rather striking coincidence that the US are willing to waive visas for our citizens just when it is trying to get the Czechs’ approval to station the anti-missile radar base in the country. Although it is clear that this is a pure coincidence and that the goodwill of the Czech Government is rewarded with reciprocal gestures from the US, suspicion of political trading in the country’s sovereignty logically follows."@en1
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