The new EU President has pushed the European Commission to the sidelines in the debate of late. ++ Van Rompuy has been placing greater emphasis on the EU’s inter-governmental aspects vs. its supranational characteristics by calling one summit after the other. ++ Now the Commission is fighting back, with initiatives to control the financial sphere and warnings to France’s over the
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The EU Commission’s willingness to allow the US to access European bank data must be questioned. ++ “How much should personal rights be constrained for anti-terror investigations?” ++ No solution to this matter of principle will satisfy both Europe and the US. ++ Washington wants a faster, less bureaucratic access to vital data, while EU members plead for more data security
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