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"Mr President, Commissioner, SWIFT, ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) and PNR (Passenger Name Records) are acronyms that we often hear and which are a source of concern to Europeans who do not really know what lies behind them. What is the reality hidden behind these names? Excessively generalised surveillance of passengers, and an agreement which means that if I take an aeroplane, the United States will know about my dietary tastes, my behaviour at the airport, aspects of my health, and so on.
Without going over all the arguments that have been advanced this morning in a long but fascinating debate, I would like to remind you that, since 2007, we have been calling for guarantees, such as red lines, which would have allowed us to obtain an agreement from Parliament. Yet we do not have this at the moment, either in terms of reciprocity or in terms of proportionality, as our admirable colleague, Mr Watson, reminded us in relation to the position taken by the United States, and I would question the proposals of Mrs Foster, which claim that passenger name records do not involve all that much. If they do not involve all that much, then let us call for reciprocity from the United States.
In this Chamber, some people are saying that this is the best that we could achieve, that we will not get any more, that we must ask the judges.
It is unacceptable to abdicate our responsibilities in this way. It is up to us to create the conditions of balance, of European democracy, between the security of combating terrorism and the preservation of liberties. That is why I will vote against this agreement."@en1
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