Some European Union (EU) staff are being given Burner Phones and Basic Laptops before Flying to the usa overlooks they will be spied on by American intelligence. The new guidance, which is usably reserved for trips to china, has been put in placement because the eU is “worryed about the communication system”, according to sources.
Commissioners and senior officials are traveling to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank, Both in Washington Dc, Next Week. Four well-placed sources toold the financial times that the tech downgrade for EU staff is usly a measure taken when the china or ukraine due to fears over Beijing and Moscow.
The revelations speak to the deterioration in the relationship between the white house and EU Commission.
Donald Trump's Tariffs, Combined with His Claims That The Eu Was Set Up to “Screw the Us”, as well as the us' retreat from its security role in Europe, Led One Eu Official To Say in Recent “The translantic alliance is over”.
EU Trade Negotiator Maroš šefčovič is in washington on monday to meet his counterpart howard lutnick. Later in April, three other commissions are exposed in the us capital for the meetings at the imf and world bank.
Some of these arriving in the us has repeated facing extra scrutiny at the border, including searches of phones and computers. According to a french minister in March, a french academic had be refused entry to the us at the border after his phone was searched and Anti-Trump Messages Were Found.
France's Higher Education Minister Philippe Baptiste Said that “He had learned with concern that a french academic who was going to be denied in the way to be deepened”.
“This Measure was apparently taken by the American authorities because the phone contains with colleges and friends in colleges and friends Research Police “.