El bosquejo secreto de la seguridad del EU arriesga alboroto con llamada para reunir limpiar y para dar a E.E.U.U. datos personales
Europa debe considerar el compartir de cantidades extensas de inteligencia y de información sobre sus ciudadanos con los E.E.U.U. de establecer una “área Euro-Atlántica de la cooperación” para combatir terrorismo, según un informe confidencial de alto nivel sobre la seguridad futura.
Los 27 miembros del EU deben también reunir inteligencia en terrorismo, desarrollar la vídeo-vigilancia común y el avión sin tripulación del abejón, redes del comienzo de los centros del contra-terrorismo, y alzar el papel y las energías de un cuerpo inteligencia-que coordina en Bruselas, altos funcionarios dichos.
El informe de 53 páginas bosquejado por el grupo futuro del interior y la justicia que los ministros a partir de seis Estados miembro del EU - Alemania, Francia, Suecia, Portugal, Eslovenia, y la república checa - discuten Europa necesitará integrar mucho de su limpiar, inteligencia-recolectando, y policy-making si es abordar terrorismo, crimen organizado, y la inmigración legal e ilegal.
El informe, considerado por el guarda, fue sometido a los gobiernos del EU el mes pasado que seguía 18 meses de trabajo. El grupo, que también incluye a altos funcionarios de la Comisión de las Comunidades Europeas, fue establecido por Alemania el año pasado y cargado con el bosquejo de un modelo para la seguridad y la política de la justicia durante los cinco años próximos.
Baronesa Escocia, el Procurador General de la República BRITÁNICO, tenía estado del observador con el grupo para determinar las implicaciones para Gran Bretaña, que sistema legislativo, desemejante de Europa continental, se basa en la ley común.
Las ofertas polémicas del grupo accionan seguramente los conflictos importantes, no menos sus llamadas para que Europa cree a cuerpo expedicionario de la gendarmería armada para la intervención paramilitary en ultramar.
El informe dijo que el EU no podría batir terrorismo a menos que desarrollara una sociedad completa con Washington, un proceso que empujaba actualmente a continuación hacia adentro ajustes y comienzo.
“El EU debe componer su mente con respecto al objetivo político de alcanzar un área Euro-Atlántica de la cooperación con los Estados Unidos en el campo de la libertad, seguridad y justicia,” dijo.
Tal pacto, que se debe concluir antes de 2014 en más último, exigiría la transferencia de volúmenes extensos de información sobre ciudadanos y viajeros europeos a las autoridades de los E.E.U.U. Las negociaciones han sido de largo en curso convenir tal pacto, pero han sido molestadas por divergencias en regímenes de la protección de la ley y de los datos de la aislamiento.
The US is already demanding that EU countries sign up for a battery of security measures on transatlantic flights and the supply of personal information on passengers if they are to enjoy visa-free travel to the US. Under one such accord struck in March between Washington and Berlin, the Germans are to make DNA and biometric information on travellers available.
The European Commission and the US homeland security department are also trying to iron out discrepancies in privacy laws to allow the wholesale exchange of data. The aim is to reach a binding international agreement this year or next.
Last month the American Civil Liberties Union wrote to MEPs pressing Brussels to reject US pressure because the US is “a country that, in privacy terms, is all but lawless … US privacy laws are weak. They offer little protection to citizens and virtually none to non-citizens.”
While urging a comprehensive transatlantic electronic pact, the Future Group focuses mainly on boosting police cooperation and integration between EU states, policies which would reinforce the powers of European agencies and institutions bearing acronyms such as Europol, Eurojust, Frontex, and Sitcen and perhaps see new agencies established to deal with security and intelligence operations.
Several member states, not least Britain, will have deep qualms about the proposals, with the British likely to balk at automatic pooling of national intelligence.
Anti-terrorist campaigns can only be effective if “maximum information flow between [EU] member states is guaranteed,” the report said. “Relevant security-related information should be available to all security authorities in the member states.” It said “networks of anti-terrorist centres” was a possible solution.
While cooperation between national police forces in the EU was advancing, the report conceded that the sharing of espionage and intelligence material was a “considerable challenge” as it clashed with the “principle of confidentiality” that is the basis for successful exchanges.
The report calls for a bigger role for “Sitcen” in coordinating intelligence sharing. Sitcen, or the Joint Situation Centre, is a shadowy intelligence body based in Brussels which started as a foreign policy tool supplying analysis on international crises to Javier Solana, the EU foreign policy chief, but which now focuses on counter-terrorism and internal security policy.
Key points
· National police forces to cooperate and integrate
· Improve European-level crisis management
· Need to harness the talents of “different actors” in fighting terrorism
· National security services and intelligence agencies need to collaborate much more closely
· New EU internet-based propaganda campaign to defeat radicalisation and terrorist recruitment
· Create “European Gendarmerie Force” for deployment and intervention abroad. Pooling of EU funds for such missions
· Common EU immigration policies. By 2014, EU leaders should make the political decision on whether to enter a “Euro-Atlantic area of freedom, security, and justice” with the Americans
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/07/eu.uksecurity
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