Gas supplies in Europe are now very uncertain. Ever since the Russian invasion of Ukraine started, neighboring European countries and the U.S. have been watching developments with anxiety. While the U.S. and its European allies have imposed a series of financial sanctions on Russia, they have evaded getting into a direct conflict with the Kremlin. ...
In the past few years, the EU has had a complicated relationship with China. While the EU has been looking to strengthen its business relationship with the Asian nation so as to ensure that its own economy keeps growing at a steady pace, these efforts have not produced the desired results as China continues to ...
An EU biennial report has named China as the top offender when it comes to violating intellectual property rights (IP) in the region. According to the European Commission, the scale and size of China’s IP infringement is a hindrance to the bloc’s trademarks and patent owners’ goals. Chinese infringement of intellectual property rights Based on the ...
The COVID-19 outbreak has infected millions of people and killed hundreds of thousands worldwide. However, the pandemic has had an unexpected silver lining — it has indirectly saved the lives of about 11,000 people in the EU by cutting down pollution. The findings were made by a study conducted by the Center for Research on ...
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) may have used Malta’s embassy in Belgium to spy on the European Union headquarters that is located opposite. The revelations were made by a spokesperson of Veiligheid van de Staat, Belgium’s homeland security service. The spying charge Malta’s embassy in Brussels, called “Dar Malta” or “Malta House” was opened in ...
The fact that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has implemented a strict censorship policy in the country is a well-known truth. Chinese censorship aims to restrict any independent opinion, which is completely contradictory to the West’s support for individual liberty and freedom of the press. The only voice allowed in China is what the communist ...
Josep Borrell, the EU foreign affairs chief, believes that Europe has been naïve when it comes to dealing with China and its push toward a new world order. However, he states that the organization is slowly becoming more realistic about the relationship. Borrell made these comments during an interview with a local French journal. Chinese ...
When it comes to data storage using cloud services, American companies like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft dominate the global market. Europe plans to take on America’s cloud service dominance through its GAIA-X project, which aims to ensure that European companies use European cloud services. The European Gaia-X project The project is a collaboration between Germany, ...
In May 2018, the European Union introduced the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) law. All companies that sell products or services in the EU are required to comply with GDPR whether the firm is located in the region or not. As far as U.S. companies are concerned, a few have been fined and several firms ...
The German government will not introduce explicit regulations to exclude Huawei, the Chinese state-and-military-linked telecommunications company, from building Germany’s 5G cellular network infrastructure, according to draft documents and spokespersons. On October 15, the German Bundesnetzagentur, or Federal Network Agency, produced a draft of regulations stating that while companies would have to prove, in the words ...
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