Area of freedom, security and justice: strategy for the external dimension, action plan implementing the Hague Programme

The European Parliament adopted the resolution based on the own-initiative report drafted by Bogdan KLICH (EPP-ED, PL), the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs approved the report on an area of freedom, security and justice: Strategy on the external dimension, Action Plan implementing the Hague programme. (Please see the summary of 05/06/2007.) Parliament also stated that it believed that the time is ripe to overcome political impediments to deeper transatlantic cooperation in the broader dimension of freedom and security, on a basis of respect for fundamental rights. This should take place, for example, in the areas of the fight against drug trafficking, organised crime and terrorism, in particular in view of the future civilian ESDP operations in Kosovo and Afghanistan, and in the areas of women's rights and the exchange and protection of personal data. It recalled, in this connection, Parliament's calls for the closure of the jail at Guantánamo, stressing that its existence is sending out a negative signal on how to combat terrorism.