Germany and France do not want to pass European traffic through the US

And again the news connected with organization NSA repeatedly mentioned on Habré. This organization, as already mentioned, got (and most likely gets) access to servers of various kinds of US organizations related to IT. Traffic is monitored, analyzed, and data collected in the NSA. And it would be fine if this were an internal affair of the United States. But no, because the vast majority of global traffic passes through the United States, and the NSA gets access not only to information of American corporations and organizations, but also to information of relevant European and Asian structures.

In order to avoid such a situation, European leaders propose not to allow intra-European traffic outside Europe. According to Reuters, German Chancellor Angela Merkel plans to discuss with European leaders the creation of a single European network. First, Merkel will meet with the President of France, and then - with other European officials.
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By the way, the NSA even tapped Merkel's cell phone itself, what can be said about monitoring European network traffic. Now Germany offers not only France, but also other European countries to unite efforts to work on a new project - the creation of a European closed network, from which European traffic will not go to the United States. Of course, traffic related to the United States (streaming video, messages, referring to sites, etc.) will easily leave the EU borders. But traffic that is not related to the United States (take the example of an e-mail sent from Germany to Belgium) should not leave Europe.

Of course, there are certain technical difficulties, but work on the project is already underway. France reaffirmed cooperation with Germany in this matter, so that other European countries may soon join this tandem.

Via reuters