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"Mr President, I recognise the importance of the fight against international terrorism and international crime. I understand the need to have certain instruments for this, but this agreement – over which I have been lobbied even by people from the US embassy in my own country – is no such instrument.
Leaving all the legal manoeuvres aside, the fact remains that this agreement allows the US side to download personal data on European citizens, and this sensitive data will then be available in the US without any real control over what happens to it thereafter. The data may include your home address, mobile telephone number, flight information, email, credit card or account numbers and also details of ethnicity or nationality.
The justification that the agreement is good because the bilateral agreements of Member States are worse is bizarre. The justification that the agreement is good because otherwise the US will force European airlines to provide the data themselves is appalling. If someone wants to develop a police state, they can do it alone. The European Union must be free and democratic. I have therefore supported neither the report nor the agreement, and I would like to thank the former rapporteur for her courage."@en1
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