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EU: European Parliament: Transfer of financial data to USA from SWIFT

The parliament adopted a Resolution on 6 July calling on EU governments, the Commission and the European Central Bank "to explain fully the extent to which they were aware of the secret agreement" between the
The parliament adopted a Resolution on 6 July calling on EU governments, the Commission and the European Central Bank "to explain fully the extent to which they were aware of the secret agreement" between the
The parliament adopted a Resolution on 6 July calling on EU governments, the Commission and the European Central Bank “to explain fully the extent to which they were aware of the secret agreement” between the Belgium-based SWIFT (‘Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication’) and the United States. Full-text of Resolution (pdf) Text of the debate – in original languages (pdf) The Resolution was proposed by an alliance of the PSE (Socialist group), ALDE (Liberals), GUE/NGL (United Left) and Green/EFA group. It was agreed by 302 votes with 219 votes against from the PPE-DE (Conservatives) and UEN groups. See: European Digital Rights (link) and: Privacy International: complaints in 33 countries on transfer of financial data to the US by SWIFT (link)