EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT – DATA CASE
April 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Parliament has thrown down the gauntlet over the agreement between the European Union (EU) and the United States over transferring airline passenger data to US authorities, voting to challenge the deal at the European Court of Justice (ECJ). The narrow vote 276 to 260, at the current parliament's last plenary session before June's European elections, involved conservative and Christian Democrat MEPs opposing legal action, losing to an alliance of socialists, liberals and greens. Now, parliament president Pat Cox is committed to refer ...
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