International

National parliaments and governmental authorities must look into the question of national involvement in the CIA's world-wide transport network. The United States' overseas secret service has, it has been revealed in the recent report by the Council of Europe, long used this network to seize and imprison people illegally who are suspected of involvement in terrorist activities. The report from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) concluded that at least fourteen countries were involved in such seizures, by means of which people were taken without trial and transported across the globe, often to places notorious for their lack of respect for human rights, including Guantanamo.

“The abolition of the sources of finance most vulnerable to fraud, such as export subsidies in agriculture, is a much-needed measure for the prevention of large-scale fraud, by which Europe is still afflicted. In addition, member states which do not cooperate in the struggle against fraud should be deprived of their subsidies.” SP Euro-MP Kartika Liotard, a member of the European Parliament's Agriculture Committee, drew these noteworthy conclusions during the debate on financial chicanery in Europe.