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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10175
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/jha

Parliament set to approve Swift II agreement

Brussels, 06/07/2010 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 8 July, the European Parliament is expected to have no difficulty in adopting the second version of the EU-US agreement on the transfer of messaging data (Swift), which will enable the US (after a six month interruption) to again access bank data transfers from Europe through the former's Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (TFTP). Parliament's civil liberties committee, responsible for this dossier, adopted on 5 July by 41 votes in favour...

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