For this reason … the European Commission gives its employees phones that are used only once!

The newspaper, quoting its sources, said that “the European Commission issues mobile phones and computers that are used for one time, for some of its employees traveling to the United States to avoid the risk of espionage,” and the sources of “Financial Times” confirmed that the commissioners and senior officials who will travel to the spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank next week have received new instructions.

The officials said that the directives of all travelers of the United States include a recommendation to close phones at the border and put them in special bags to protect them from opening and see their data if they are left without surveillance, according to the newspaper.

According to the newspaper’s sources, such procedures are usually applied when traveling to Ukraine and China. According to the newspaper, there is an “additional danger” in the United States, where the border guards are entitled to confiscate visitors and computers and examine their contents, as tourists and researchers from Europe prevent entering the country if their phones and their laptops contain comments on social media or documents criticizing the policies of US President Donald Trump’s administration. According to an unpopular European Union official, the Atlantic alliance “has reached its end.”

“They are concerned that the United States will infiltrate the commission systems,” the newspaper quoted an unveiled official as saying.