EU Uncooperative on Airline Safety

I would love to travel to Europe someday, but sometimes when I read stuff like this...

Emphasis mine.

The United States and the European Union failed to reach a new deal on sharing air passenger data by Saturday's deadline, though officials said negotiations would continue. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said the failure to agree wouldn't disrupt trans-Atlantic air travel.

Of course we need information on potential hijackers, and on visitors who may have radical backgrounds.

But Telmo Baltazar, counselor to the EU delegation, said talks were positive and constructive. "Talks did not collapse," he said. "They are at a temporary impasse and are ongoing."

Chertoff said in a telephone interview Saturday that he was sending EU representatives "an initial proposed agreement, which I think embodies what their fundamental requirements for data protection are so we can do what we need to protect our borders. If they're prepared to accept and sign, great. If we have to have additional talks, fine."

Protect the borders...what a novel idea! To make matters worse, the EU has shown it's unreliability on this issue in the past by rejecting a previous agreement established after 9/11 to provide airline security. The al-Qaeda  terrorists were giddy before 9/11, future terrorists are no doubt celebrating now.

""The agreement was meant to last until 2007 and gave the US access to thirty four catagories of information about passengers coming into the US.""

Previous deals broken makes one wonder about the assurance and quality of any future agreement. While Islam practices the perpetual war of Jihad, the EU seems happy to comply with perpetual state of dhimmitude, leaving passengers in a perpetual state of danger.

Previous posts on this subject;
EU Rejects Airline Security To US

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Comments

[Always On Watch]

To make matters worse, the EU has shown it's unreliability on this issue in the past by rejecting a previous agreement established after 9/11 to provide airline security.

We don't hear much about the gaps in security with regard to international flights. I'll bet that many Americans traveling to Europe don't have a clue as to the laxness.

[Brooke]

I'll bet! If you doubt U.S. security... Look out!

I LOVE that last paragraph, Kevin! That's quote worthy material!