Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2017-02-14-Speech-2-528-000"
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"Mr President, in the digital age will information be used to empower the citizen or the state? Frightened by the potential of digital information the UK Government’s legal advisers are proposing to increase prison sentences for revealing state secrets, perhaps up to 14 years, and seeking to intimidate journalists who report this information. These are worrying signs that the UK’s decision to leave the EU is unleashing dark forces of state control and secrecy.
But this Parliament is standing up for citizens. We want them to reveal information of public importance about corruption or illegal activity by the state or private corporations. My work to fight tax avoidance by the rich and powerful would be impossible without information released by brave whistle—blowers like Antoine Deltour and Hervé Falciani. Today Parliament expresses our solidarity with all whistle—blowers and our impatience for an EU-wide law to protect all those who share information in the public interest. As Greens we also reject the EU Trade Secrets Directive which protected the secrecy of some of the world’s largest companies right across the continent."@en1
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