The European Commission did not give much comfort, on Monday 12 September in Strasbourg, to MEPs who asked it to take strong action to prevent wiretapping practices organised in some Member States for national security reasons and which have led, as in Greece, to the phone-tapping of political opponents or journalists.
In a debate on Predator and more general spyware tapping practices, the Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders, reiterated several times that these were matters to be...