The European Commission It is apparently delivering to your staff that you have to travel to the United States prepaid telephones and basic laptops To avoid the risk of espionage, according to the Financial Times. It is a current measure in the EU for countries such as Ukraine or China.
Thus, the commissioners and high -level officials who have to travel this spring to the meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund have already received the new communications safety regulations when they enter the country, which includes turning off their usual devices and putting them in a kind of antispionage sleeve when they are not using them to prevent someone from accessing them at a distance.
Apparently, according to an official, in the EU they are concerned about the possibility that the United States can access the systems of the European Commission through one of these devices. These precautions clearly demonstrate the deterioration of relations between the two regions after Donald Trump’s return to the US presidency last January.
Trump has accused the EU of having formed to annoy the US and has imposed on the European Union, as well as most countries of the world, various levels of tariffs, of which some are at the time in suspense for a 90 -day period.
He has also opened to Russia, has pressed Ukraine to deliver territories to Russia and the control of several of its assets to the US, in addition to suspending its military and economic aid to the country. He has also threatened to withdraw security elements from Europe, which has led to a plan to rearma in the region.
On the other hand, he has attacked the regulation of the EU on technology, which affects its great technological, and has claimed that Brussels co -liberty freedom of expression.
The Commission confirms that it has recently updated its security advice to travel to the United States, but has said that there have been no specific written instructions on the use of prepaid telephones. If you have stated that the diplomatic service of the block has been involved in these changes, as usual in these cases.
When traveling to the United States there is also another impediment for EU officials and commissioners to freely use their devices.
Immigration officials who control entry to the country can Request that they are given phones and laptops and check their content as part of the checks made to authorize or denied a person entry to the United States.
A measure that does not reassure precisely those who fear that US authorities can spy on the EU through these devices.
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