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EU: European Parliament: MEPs clash with EU officials over foreign fighters

07 November 2014

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"The European Commission’s director for internal security told MEPs in the civil liberties committee on Wednesday (5 November) that the “fatal attack at the Belgian Jewish museum in May of this year” shows the EU needs to finalise a new PNR agreement with Canada. The lead negotiator on the file Dutch liberal Sophie In’t Veld said the reference was disingenuous because the EU has been exchanging PNR data with Canada for the past five years already.

“Suggesting that with this agreement you can use PNR to identify foreign fighters and that we will all be safe, you even made the connection with the attacks in Brussels, which underlines that your justification is false,” she said."

See the full text: European Parliament: MEPs clash with EU officials over foreign fighters (euobserver, link)

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