In short: The European Commission is supplying employees bound to the US on the official business with a burner phone and basic laptops. Security measures, which are common for members of employees going to areas like Russia or China, where electronic monitoring is estimated to thwart spying efforts.
A European Union official told Financial Times, “The transatalantic alliance is over.”
According to the register, European Union officials have been designed to visit Washington DC next week to attend the spring meetings organized by the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group. What should not be changed between now and again, they will probably be the first to work under the new policy.
Additionally, employees are encouraged to shut down their phone at the border and are stored in special sleeves that protect against monitoring strategy if left unattainable. If it were me, I would just leave any personal phone, tablet or computer at home in this situation.
The White House and the US National Security Council did not comment on being asked about the situation. The European Commission confirmed that its safety recommendations were updated, but did not reveal the nuances of the latest policy.
Luuk Van Midelar, director of the Brussels Institute for Geopolitics, said new security measures are not surprising. “Washington is not Beijing or Moscow, but it is an opponent that is prone to using additional-passing methods to carry forward its interests and power,” Van Midelar told the publishing.
According to Van Miderar, it does not belong to anything new or party. “Democactic administration uses the same strategy,” he said, referring to an incident of 2013 under the US -Obama administration – accused of spying on the phone of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
As India has highlighted today, the border staff in the US has the right to find mobile equipment of visitors visiting the country and they can also seize them. Some have allegedly refused to enter the US even after allegedly changing the important positions of the Trump administration.
Trump has more tension between the US and the European Union since Trump withdrew office in January.
