MEPs want Brussels to take action But MEPs have called for an urgent EU investigation into the matter. UK liberal MEP and member of the parliament's civil liberties committee baroness Sarah Ludford said "I will be asking commissioner Frattini to check out urgently this suggestion that EU member states may be implicated in the most barbaric practices of the misguided US 'war on terror'". She added that if EU member states were involved "this has the most devastating implications for the EU's credibility in upholding human rights and the rule of law". Dutch green MEP Kathalijne Buitenweg, also a member of the civil liberties committee as well as of the EU-US parliamentary delegation said that "Mr Solana should clarify with the Americans what exactly is going on". "If human rights are violated in an EU country, or in a candidate member state, than this is an EU issue", she added. Ms Buitenweg indicated the parliament's civil liberties and foreign affairs committees should discuss ways for the European Parliament to further research the issue itself. The member announced she would personally raise the question at an EU-US parliamentary meeting in December.
UK liberal MEP and member of the parliament's civil liberties committee baroness Sarah Ludford said "I will be asking commissioner Frattini to check out urgently this suggestion that EU member states may be implicated in the most barbaric practices of the misguided US 'war on terror'".
She added that if EU member states were involved "this has the most devastating implications for the EU's credibility in upholding human rights and the rule of law".
Dutch green MEP Kathalijne Buitenweg, also a member of the civil liberties committee as well as of the EU-US parliamentary delegation said that "Mr Solana should clarify with the Americans what exactly is going on".
"If human rights are violated in an EU country, or in a candidate member state, than this is an EU issue", she added.
Ms Buitenweg indicated the parliament's civil liberties and foreign affairs committees should discuss ways for the European Parliament to further research the issue itself.
The member announced she would personally raise the question at an EU-US parliamentary meeting in December.
Can the European Court of Justice investigate ex-officio? tens of millions of people stand to see their lives ruined because the bureaucrats at the ECB don't understand introductory economics -- Dean Baker
