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By Aoife White
The European Parliament on Thursday strongly rejected a deal that would have allowed U.S. authorities access to European bank transfers — a vote the United States said disrupted an important source of information for anti-terror investigators.
EU lawmakers in Strasbourg, France, voted 378-196 against the deal with 31 abstentions. The parliament’s president, Jerzy Buzek, said the assembly wants more safeguards for civil liberties and believes human rights has been compromised in the name of security.
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