A comprehensive transatlantic pact clearing the way for the unprecedented supply of private data on European citizens to the American authorities is to be promoted by France in support of the US-driven campaign to combat terrorism and transnational crime.(...)
"This is outrageous," said Sophie In't Veld, a Dutch Liberal MEP on the European parliament's civil liberties committee. "This is about fundamental rights. But it has all been done in secret by civil servants behind closed doors."
