EU Parliament votes nonbinding resolution to protect Edward Snowden

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans

EU Parliament votes nonbinding resolution to protect Edward Snowden

On Thursday, the European Parliament narrowly voted a nonbinding resolution calling on European Union (EU) member states to offer “protection” to Edward Snowden. By 285 to 281 votes, it recommended that EU states “drop any criminal charges against Edward Snowden, grant him protection and consequently prevent extradition or rendition by third parties, in recognition of his status as whistle-blower and international human rights defender.” The vote amounted to official confirmation that Snowden, by exposing mass extra-legal electronic spying on the world’s population by the National Security Agency in the United States and allied spy agencies across Europe, was defending fundamental democratic rights against a mortal threat posed by the governments of the United States and Europe. Amid escalating divisions on international policy between Washington and the EU, the European Parliament was keen to be seen as sympathetic to mass anger at illegal government spying. The EU’s gesture is fundamentally bankrupt and hypocritical, however: the passage of its resolution changes nothing in Snowden’s situation. The parliament has no executive authority, which lies with the EU Commission and the national governments of the EU member states, who have made clear their determination to stop at nothing to capture Snowden and render him […]

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