Strasbourg, 05/07/2001 (Agence Europe) - The temporary committee on the Echelon spy system adopted, on Tuesday evening in Strasbourg, the report by the German Social Democrat Gerhard Schmid, who notes the existence of this global communications interception system at the international level and includes a catalogue of 44 recommendations notably for the attention of the European Union institutions. This report will be examined in plenary in September.
The report, adopted with a very large...