French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve on Sunday reiterated a call
for the European sharing of airline passenger data which was
backed last Friday by the new Polish EU president Donald Tusk, shortly after terror attacks in France.
Cazeneuve said the dozen EU, US and Canadian ministers who met Sunday at Paris's Elysee Palace, including Germany's interior minister Thomas de Maiziere, also called for a strengthening of controls at the EU's external borders - while respecting fundamental rights, to trace extremists returning to Europe from the Middle East.
The European Commission, the 28-nation bloc's executive arm, has promoted the passenger data sharing measure, but the European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee has blocked it in the past over privacy concerns.
The so-called Passenger Name Record (PNR) system would allow police and intelligence agencies in EU member nations to have shared access to several years of passenger data in a bid to trace would-be militants.
It would go beyond existing arrangements. Airlines based in the EU already share PNR data with security forces in Canada, Australia and the United States, including names, addresses and c
Read more: Data sharing, tighter EU outer border, urged at Paris talks | News | DW.DE | 11.01.2015
Cazeneuve said the dozen EU, US and Canadian ministers who met Sunday at Paris's Elysee Palace, including Germany's interior minister Thomas de Maiziere, also called for a strengthening of controls at the EU's external borders - while respecting fundamental rights, to trace extremists returning to Europe from the Middle East.
The European Commission, the 28-nation bloc's executive arm, has promoted the passenger data sharing measure, but the European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee has blocked it in the past over privacy concerns.
The so-called Passenger Name Record (PNR) system would allow police and intelligence agencies in EU member nations to have shared access to several years of passenger data in a bid to trace would-be militants.
It would go beyond existing arrangements. Airlines based in the EU already share PNR data with security forces in Canada, Australia and the United States, including names, addresses and c
Read more: Data sharing, tighter EU outer border, urged at Paris talks | News | DW.DE | 11.01.2015
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