The new president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, has urged members of the European Parliament to vote in favor of sharing airline passenger data between nations, in the wake of this week’s terrorist incidents in Paris.
Speaking in the Latvian capital of Riga, to mark the start of the Baltic nation’s six-month presidency of the European Union (EU), Tusk said he supported a proposal to share Passenger Name Record (PNR) data between the EU’s 28 nations.
A PNR-sharing proposal has been on the table for two years, an EU spokeswoman toldATW.
However, parliamentarians have been reluctant to pass it, for fear of infringing individuals’ privacy.
Tusk—formerly the longest-serving prime minister of Poland since it became democratic again in the 1990s and now the man who chairs meetings of EU leaders—will call on EU lawmakers in Strasbourg to look again at the PNR proposals following this week’s terrorist outrages in France.
The aim of sharing PNR data is to improve the security of airline travel by alerting the authorities to attempts by suspected terrorists to travel. It is now known, for example, that two of the terrorists shot dead Friday were on a US no-fly list.
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Speaking in the Latvian capital of Riga, to mark the start of the Baltic nation’s six-month presidency of the European Union (EU), Tusk said he supported a proposal to share Passenger Name Record (PNR) data between the EU’s 28 nations.
A PNR-sharing proposal has been on the table for two years, an EU spokeswoman toldATW.
However, parliamentarians have been reluctant to pass it, for fear of infringing individuals’ privacy.
Tusk—formerly the longest-serving prime minister of Poland since it became democratic again in the 1990s and now the man who chairs meetings of EU leaders—will call on EU lawmakers in Strasbourg to look again at the PNR proposals following this week’s terrorist outrages in France.
The aim of sharing PNR data is to improve the security of airline travel by alerting the authorities to attempts by suspected terrorists to travel. It is now known, for example, that two of the terrorists shot dead Friday were on a US no-fly list.
atwonline