Europe Has 19 Questions to Air Travellers
The European Commission presented in Brussels yesterday a new package of counterterrorist actions, including, in particular, creation of a database for all air travellers arriving from the third countries or flying from the EU to other regions of the world. Washington introduced those procedures long ago and European right defenders have been criticizing the United States for them from time to time. They will now have to oppose the system already in Europe.
One of the new anti-terrorist proposals that the European Commission unveiled in Brussels Tuesday is to create a database for all air travellers arriving from the third countries and flying from the EU to other world. The passenger’s file will have 19 items, including contact phone numbers, address, email, bank details, method of paying for ticket and name of the tourist operator that sold the ticket, possible changes in date of departure, arrival or the route changes and even the seat number preferred by the passenger.
At the same time, no data related to passenger’s ethnic background, political or religious opinion and sexual preference will be ever required, at least the bill spells out the respective prohibition. Besides, the European Commission has no intention to set up a centralized database system for all Europe. Each of 27 EU states will separately and independently collect and store the respective information, sharing it with each other in case of need.
Along with collecting the data on air travelers, the European Union states are also expected to create a system of early warning should any explosives be lost or stolen and to ban in the EU all militant Web sites calling for terror actions and instructing how to make bombs.
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