A large number of large and small businesses process EU data, have customers from the EU or have access to data of EU citizens in one way or another.
The more pernicious of these measures is EC Regulation 1383 that allows customs officials and rights holders to interfere in the legitimate trade of generic medicines.
China on Monday continued its unprecedented military drills around Taiwan, extending the schedule of war games launched in retaliation to the visit by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to the breakaway island which Beijing claims is part of its territory.
The other MEP involved in the attacks was Erika Mann, a German Socialist.