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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10070

4 February 2010
Contents Publication in full By article 10 / 29
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/jha
Committee on civil liberties to call for Swift agreement to be thrown out

Brussels, 03/02/2010 (Agence Europe) - Excepting a dramatic turn of events, the committee on civil liberties (LIBE) of the European Parliament is set to recommend, on Thursday 4 February, that the temporary EU-United States agreement on the transfer of personal banking data via the Swift network be thrown out. "A number of serious legal reservations to the interim agreement, such as the very basic principles of necessity and proportionality, are being violated, as well as the lack of...

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