EU privacy ruling threatens chaos on flights to US

The Eurocrats apparently still don’t get it at all, 9-11, and the Madrid, and London bombings, etc. notwithstanding.

Millions of tourists and business travellers planning to fly to the United States were left in legal limbo yesterday after the European Union’s highest court struck down an agreement on sharing the personal details of passengers with US authorities….The Passenger Name Records (PNR) agreement governs 34 pieces of personal information that must be handed by airlines to the American authorities within 15 minutes of a plane taking off. It came in as a counter-terrorist measure demanded by Washington after September 11.

The case against the PNR agreement was brought by the European Parliament, which claimed it infringed the fundamental rights of citizens.

How’s THIS for fundamental rights: Euros have a fundamental right NOT to fly into the US without meeting our requirements! Of course, with their US counterparts unwilling to enforce out laws with regards to Mexican illegals, why would they have any expectation that the US would enforce regs against Eurotrash either.

Unfortunately, they may well be right.