Petition Text
No EU officer may use, in the execution of official duties, software subject to the laws of an adversarial nation.
The wording here is functional. The European Commission is slow-moving and resistant to change. By making individuals responsible for obeying the law, the typical EC shoulder-shrugging is avoided. “Adversarial nation” is not defined here. Presumably the EC would need do that. That is their security. However, when an EU member state is attacked militarily, then the situation is clear. EU officers must know that the situation could change in a matter of hours and days. It is in their personal interest to create a Plan B even while the EC itself is prevaricating as usual.
Background
The EU has become dependent on software for critical functions that is controlled either by companies whose officers are hostile to European values and in some cases, to the EU itself. There are other companies which are simply under the control of a nation which has over-ridden EU laws and has threatened the EU with military and economic aggression. These companies, and by extension, the governments which control them, have complete insight into the workings of the EU.
This dependency is inconsistent with European sovereignty.
The threat is not theoretical. The European Commission has already agreed to give a foreign country decision-making power over how the EU enforces its own laws.
This must end.
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EU Sovereignty
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Techlords as Allies
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