European Commission Fears Spying from Us – ‘Use keypad phones in US’, EU’s instructions to their officers due to the possibility of espionage – EU ISUES BURNER Phones and Basic Laptops to Staff Visiting us Over Spying Fars NTC

The European commission is fearing that the US may spy its employees. Therefore, the commission has issued a burner phone (ordinary phone with keypad) and basic laptops to its employees going to America. This has been reported in a report by British newspaper Financial Times. The report quoted the European Commission officials as saying, “Employees going to America should shut their smart phones as soon as they go out of the UK border and keep them in a special cover so that surveillance can be avoided.”

The Financial Times in its report quoted four people familiar with the case as saying, “Next week, Commissioners and senior officials of European Commission going to America for IMF and World Bank meetings will be kept under this safety measure.” The above people said that such protocols have already been followed during the visit to China and Ukraine. Due to the risk of espionage in these two countries, foreign guests cannot bring standard IT kit. An official said, “There is a fear that the US may try to hack the European Commission system.”

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The European Commission has confirmed that it has recently updated its cyber security. But he refused to comment on the possibilities of spying by the US. The European Commission said that its diplomatic service has always been involved in such security updates. The White House and the US National Security Council have not responded to the development.

Trade war continues between European Union and America

The development took place at a time when the trade war between the European Union and the US has been going on since Donald Trump returned to the White House in January. Trump has claimed that the European Union was established to harass the US. He imposed 20 percent recipes on the export of the European Union. Later, he announced a ban on this for 90 days and then reduced the tariff from 20 to 10 percent.

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However, the European Union has stopped its retaliation against US exports of 21 billion euros after the US imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum. The European Union’s Trade Commissioner Maros Safkovic interacted with the US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik at Washington DC on Monday in an attempt to resolve the trade war.

Luke Van Mildar, director of the Brucelles Institute for Geopolitics, said that security measures on European Commission officials traveling to the US are not surprising. The Financial Times quoted Middler in its report as saying, “Washington, Beijing or Moscow, but it is an opponent that takes the tendency to use illegal methods to enhance its interests and power.”

USA was accused of espionage of German Chancellor

Luke Van Mildar reminded that the Barack Obama administration in the US was accused of spying the phone of the then German Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2013. He said, ‘Democratic governments also adopt the same strategy. Warn the European Commission about the potential threat to its employees, it is the acceptance of reality. In the US, the border staff has the right to check the content and the content present in them by seizing the phones and computers of visitors and tourists.

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In recent times, there have been many cases of deprivation of tourists and academics from Europe to enter America. Because on the borders of America, their social media profiles were examined by the border staff on their phones or laptops and they were found to have comments or posts criticizing the policies of Trump administration. Due to this, he was not given entry in America and was returned from the border itself.