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Pandora’s box

August 9th, 2007 by Ephemeris

Once again the citizens of EU will pay with their fundamental rights the price for so-called war against terrorism. The East-European nations have seen this before –in the name of the national security a lot of stupid and dangerous rules are implemented, and when the people will finally realize that the authorities went too far, it will be probably too late for an amiable solution.
So, according to the new EU-USA agreement, our private information will be held by American authorities for 15 years (so they say; let me see: after 15 years what really happens?).
Many European states have expressed their concern on this matter, The European Court of Justice rejected the first issue of the agreement ….so what?!
Is it me or the situations in which the European authorities don’t bother to take into account the opinions of the member states are more frequent every day? – they just give another form to the agreement (with almost the same result) and get what they want.
The fact that the same strategy is used for the European Constitution (not any more called ‘Constitution’, but in many respects still with a similar legal value), that the referendum is avoided (let’s be serious: if not for this kind of treaty, than for what on Earth does the referendum even exist?!) should be a very serious signal for European citizens. The fact that European Institutions are going too far will probably cause many anti-integration movements, and I don’t think European Union is ready for a civil crisis. Somebody is playing with fire.

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