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Perspective

Mar. 7, 2014

Proposed EU communications network will impact US businesses

German Chancellor Angela Merkel recently suggested a European communications network should be set up to avoid potential access to European data by the U.S. government. By William Long and Catherine Valerio Barrad


By William Long and Catherine Valerio Barrad


On Nov. 9, 1989, the first bricks in the Berlin wall were loosened, soon to be followed by a torrent of people moving freely between East and West Berlin. Twenty-five years later German politicians have proposed erecting a new wall around at least Germany and France aimed at keeping emails and other data, rather than people, from leaving Europe for the U.S.


In a recent weekly podcast, German Chancellor Angel...

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