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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9225
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/swift

MEPs express concern at Commission's attitude

Strasbourg, 04/07/2006 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday, several MEPs cast doubt upon the attitude of the European Commission which had hitherto not stated it was competent regarding the transfer of financial information from Swift to the US secret services. Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Co-President of the Greens/ELA, felt that, as guardian of the treaties, the Commission should envisage an inquiry, saying the Commission is not being consistent with the role entrusted to it. He said it was incredible...

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