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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9227

7 July 2006
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/terrorism/united states/swift
Hearing to shed light on transfer of information on hundreds of thousands of EU citizens to US secret services

Strasbourg, 06/07/2006 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday, the European Parliament, by 302 votes to 219, with 22 abstentions, adopted a resolution from the PES, ALDE, Greens/EFA and GUE/NGL groups on the United States' Terrorist Finance Tracking Programme, allowing financial data held by SWIFT (a private interbank cooperative set up in Belgium linking over 8,000 banks, including a number of central banks, in 200 countries) on “hundreds of thousands of EU citizens” to be transferred. While...

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