Mass surveillance and reports of tapping of European...
Mass surveillance and reports of tapping of European politicians’ phones are the subject of Monday to Wednesday talks in Washington between U.S. authorities and the European Parliament Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee, said the European Parliament in a…
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news release. One priority is to gather all relevant information from U.S. sources, said delegation leader Claude Moraes (U.K., Socialists & Democrats). Lawmakers plan to meet with congressional members, lawyers, academics and civil society representatives, the parliament said. Also on the agenda are reform of EU data protection laws and possible suspension of the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program, a move that the European Parliament recommended last week (CD Oct 24 p10). Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee is visiting New York and Washington to discuss the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. The negotiations are of “crucial economic and political importance for the USA and the EU in the new global order,” said committee Chairman Elmar Brok (Germany, European People’s Party). The U.S. should “stop blocking the stagnating negotiations” on a U.S.-EU agreement for data protection, he said. Both committees will exchange views Wednesday at the White House with Karen Donfried, National Security Council senior director-European affairs, the release said.