The European Union has ruled that they do not have to give the United States notice of who is on flights to this Country from the EU:
The European Court of Justice has blocked an EU-US agreement that requires airlines to transfer passenger data to the US authorities.
The court said the decision to hand over the data was not founded on an “appropriate legal basis”.
European airlines have given US authorities passengers’ names, addresses and credit card details.
The US said the data would help fight terrorism, but the European Parliament said the data could be misused.
The agreement demands that within 15 minutes of take-off for the United States, a European airline must send the US authorities 34 items of personal information about the passengers on board.
[...]The US demanded tighter airline security worldwide after the 11 September 2001 attacks on New York and Washington by suicide hijackers.
[...]In its ruling on Tuesday, the court found that the EU Council of Ministers’ decision to sign the agreement on “Passenger Name Records” lacked an adequate legal basis.
The Council and the European Commission based their actions on the EU Data Protection Directive, but the court said the directive did not apply to data collected for security purposes.
It gave the EU until 30 September 2006 to find a new legal solution.
[...]But executive officer of the British Air Transport Association Bob Preston told the BBC European airlines could potentially be left in a “difficult position, between a rock and a hard place”.
“If we don’t supply the information to the United States authorities then we’re liable to fines of up to $6,000 per passenger and the loss of landing rights,” he said.
“And if we do supply the data, potentially we’re breaking the law [on data protection].”
You bet your ass they will be subject to these penalties. If they think for one minute that the United States will reduce the level of security when it comes to flights into this country they are smoking too much Amsterdam hashish.
Flying into this Country is NOT a right. It is a privilege.
The EU is determined to show the World just how important they are. Even though they aren’t important at all. Just another neo-socialist ghetto, hell-bent on keeping its subjects under its thumb.
Screw ‘em! No info from ‘em – factual, not BS designed to fool us – no landing for ‘em. No exceptions.
Look at how Hillary chose to “celebrate” memorial day…
2008 presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton said Monday that she’s horrified over allegations that U.S. Marines executed innocent Iraqis in the town of Haditha last November after their convoy was hit by a roadside bomb – and she’s vowing to expose any cover-up by Marine brass.
“This is the kind of horrific allegation that has to be investigated, and we’re going to start in the Senate doing just that,” she told the New York Daily News, after marching in Chappaqua’s Memorial Day parade…..
AND WHY THIS WOMAN SHOULD NEVER BE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF!!!!!!
Carol
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ACLU Applauds EU Court Decision Striking Down US-EU Data-Sharing Pact…
Today the unelected black robes in the European Union have struck down an agreement that requires the EU to share information on European citizens flying to the United States