EU apparently plans embassy in Silicon Valley

From there, the EU wants to keep a better eye on tech companies. So far, however, the plans have not been publicly confirmed.

According to media reports, the European Union is planning an embassy in Silicon Valley. This is according to internal documents which are available to the Handelsblatt has. "An informed dialogue with the private sector on its role and responsibilities is an important part of the external digital policy," the European External Action Service paper says. It says that the tech scene in Silicon Valley should be monitored from San Francisco. Apparently, the EU's foreign affairs representative Josep Borrell has already informed the foreign ministers of the member states about the move, writes Handelsblatt. With this move, the EU wants to pay more attention to the "geopolitics of new digital technologies".

The European External Action Service has existed since 2011 and is supposed to maintain the EU's diplomatic relations with the rest of the world, so far in 139 offices. In the US, the European Union is represented by an embassy in Washington D.C. and one at the United Nations in New York.