Belgium’s cyber security chief says: Europe faces an ‘enormous security problem’ and it is American in nature as …

Belgium’s cybersecurity chief, Miguel De Bruycker, has revealed that Europe faces an “enormous security problem” due to its heavy dependency on American companies for digital infrastructure. In a recent interview, the director of the Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium (CCB) said that Europe has fallen so far behind the US in digital infrastructure that it has “lost the internet”. De Bruycker told the Financial Times that it was “currently impossible” to store data fully in Europe because US companies dominate digital infrastructure across the continent. The Belgian official also warned that Europe’s cyber defences even depend on the cooperation of private companies, most of which are American.