This is a fascinating revelation, the European equivalent of the Five Eyes.
The author, by the way, is a Dutch professor of Security, Privacy and Identity at the Radboud University (Nijmegen). His website is here: http://www.cs.ru.nl/~bart/
The author, by the way, is a Dutch professor of Security, Privacy and Identity at the Radboud University (Nijmegen). His website is here: http://www.cs.ru.nl/~bart/
The EU's historians have recently (2014) published an historical perspective on the writing and impact of that report, which is worth a read: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/EPRS/EPRS_STUDY_538877_Affair...
This is effectively real world history, not the crap you garner from mass media or would-have-you-believe books. Another great classic: the conspicuously missing history of SWIFT, with its own EU parliament discussions.
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