Harry-Potter Posted February 28, 2014 Report Share Posted February 28, 2014 Members of the European Parliament have recently rejected a demand from the European Green Party which urged member nations’ governments to grant asylum to a well-known whistleblower Edward Snowden. The demand came during the adoption of a European Parliament Committee inquiry into the spying scandal of the National Security Agency of the USA. The reason for rejection was not really that the MEPs didn’t like the former NSA agent, or what he did – it was rather due to a traditional problem of allowing the European Union to tell member states who they could allow into their country. According to Blighty’s Claude Moraes, member nations should always have the final say over who they let stay inside their borders. He explained that the European Union has actually no power to grant asylum as the European Union – it is rather something for individual countries. This is why the issue of asylum within the latest report can’t be a relevant issue for the European Union.In the meantime, German Green MEP Jan-Philipp Albrecht slammed what he called the Parliament’s “lacklustre response” to the crisis of the national Security Agency. He believes the European Union has be doing a bit more to hack off the US for spying on European citizens and the best way to wind them up is to provide the whistleblower asylum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranma-kun Posted February 28, 2014 Report Share Posted February 28, 2014 If he is returned to the United States we can put all of this behind us and I am sure there will be no more spying. Then everyone can forget about this whole debacle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tokyo joe Posted February 28, 2014 Report Share Posted February 28, 2014 If he is returned to the United States we can put all of this behind us and I am sure there will be no more spying. Then everyone can forget about this whole debacle. What the article is saying is that the EU is not itself sovereign, but is composed of sovereign states. Snowden will have to pick an individual country to seek asylum in. If Snowden is returned to the United States, he will be (turned on a spit and fried to a crisp) pretty much done for. We're just supposed to sell the man out after what he's done for us? Some gratitude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranma-kun Posted February 28, 2014 Report Share Posted February 28, 2014 Well it really is a matter of perspective as an American I see him as someone who damaged our foreign relations and betrayed his country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saxsen Posted March 5, 2014 Report Share Posted March 5, 2014 Apparently Corporate whistleblowers and federal ones mind you are almost held to the same treatment (I am being Hyperbolic I know). There is not much point in being a whistleblowers in the US if this is the way that you are treated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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