Brussels wants to protect four critical • Table.Briefings

Internal Market Commissioner Breton speaks of the „end of naivety“: The EU Parliament has approved a long-awaited trade tool against economic blackmail. The Commission also presents a list of critical technology that needs to be protected from the People’s Republic. No one knows exactly how this is supposed to work.

The EU Commission has drafted a list of critical technologies the European Union wants to protect from rivals. Digital Commissioner Věra Jourová and EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton presented the list in Strasbourg on Tuesday. The list contains a total of ten technologies. However, four of them are designated as particularly dangerous should they fall into the wrong hands:

Brussels wants to protect four critical technologies from China

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