Universities warn blanket ban on telecommunications companies Huawei and ZTE would be “over the top”
The European Commission intends to assess the risks of allowing two Chinese telecommunications companies to participate in EU-funded research and innovation projects, Research Professional News can reveal, following an announcement earlier this month that it was concerned about possible security threats.
On 15 June, the Commission said it would “take measures to avoid exposure of its corporate communications to mobile networks using Huawei and ZTE as suppliers”, adding that it “intends to reflect this decision in all relevant EU funding programmes and instruments”.
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