EU to unveil bank data deal with US

The European Commission unveiled the text of a draft agreement on the 15 June 2010 on sharing its citizens’ banking data with the US for the purposes of combating terrorism, in an effort to sell the deal to the 27 Member States and the European Parliament.

The new version of the SWIFT anti-terrorist agreement on bank data transfers to the USA was approved by the European Parliament on the 8 July 2010.

EurActiv, 9.7.10: Assertive Parliament ratifies EU-US anti-terror deal http://www.euractiv.com/en/justice/ignore-us-your-peril-warns-buzek-parliament-oks-swift-news-496152

European Commission: MEMO/10/309: Statement by President José Manuel Barroso on the European Parliament's approval of the agreement on the Terrorist Financing Tracking Programme (TFTP) http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/10/309&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

European Commission: MEMO/10/308: Speaking points of Commissioner Malmström on the Agreement between the EU and the USA on the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (TFTP) http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/10/308&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

EurActiv, 15.6.10: MEPs' anti-terror decision on a knife edge http://www.euractiv.com/justice/meps-anti-terror-decision-knife-news-495243

ESO: Background information: MEPs to derail EU-US anti-terror talks http://www.europeansources.info/record/meps-to-derail-eu-us-anti-terror-talks/

EurActiv, 7.7.10: Parliament to back new EU-US data-sharing deal http://www.euractiv.com/justice/parliament-back-new-eu-us-data-s-news-496057

Deutsche Welle, 1.8.10: US accesses European bank data under controversial SWIFT agreement http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5855750,00.html

Deutsche Welle, 8.7.10: Bank data sharing scheme approved by EU Parliament http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5773830,00.html

European Parliament: Press Release, 8.7.10: Parliament gives green light for SWIFT II http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/expert/infopress_page/019-78055-186-07-28-902-20100707IPR78054-05-07-2010-2010-false/default_en.htm

Trouw, 9.7.10: Privacy, victim of the Atlantic crossing (via PressEurop) http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/292041-privacy-victim-atlantic-crossing

IPS, 6.7.10: This Big Brother Is in the U.S. http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=52069

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