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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10066

29 January 2010
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/jha
Parliament not convinced on body scanners

Brussels, 28/01/2010 (Agence Europe) - For the moment at any rate, and while awaiting an impact analysis from the Commission, MEPs are not convinced of the usefulness of body scanners as a way of beefing up airport security. “We would like to know to what extent they would be efficient,” given that they are “quite intrusive instruments”, said Simon Busuttil (EPP, Malta) in the civil liberties committee meeting on Wednesday 27 January. Timothy Kirkhope (ECR, UK) underlined the...

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