EU calls for safety check on airport body scanners
While body scanners have already been introduced in some EU airports to step up the fight against terrorism, both the European Commission and the European Parliament stress that their impact on health and privacy protection needs to be fully assessed before the Union can adopt a common position on the new technology.
EU, US condemn Iran on human rights as nuclear threat looms
The United States and the European Union expressed concern yesterday (8 February) about the potential for a renewed crackdown by the Iranian government around the 11 February anniversary of the founding of the Islamic Republic, as Teheran informed the UN nuclear watchdog it will start producing 20%-enriched uranium inside the country.
Angry MEPs demand delay on EU-US bank data deal
MEPs today (21 January) clashed with EU ministers, calling for a delay to the entry into force of the so-called SWIFT agreement, a EU-US deal maintaining the transfer of EU citizens' banking data to US investigators.
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