BREAKING: #Netherlands blocks US takeover of a vital digital supplier.
NL investment screening authority sees the purchase as posing "a possible risk to the public interest."
NL govt now adopts the advice, a week before the EU Commission comes with its #TechSovereignt Package.
#DefendDemocracy
#HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺
#BigTech #tech
https://www.politico.eu/article/netherlands-blocks-us-takeover-vital-digital-supplier
Alice Stollmeyer
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