The European Commission insists on "restricting or excluding" Huawei from 5G networks.

The European Commission insisted Tuesday that EU countries must "restrict or exclude Huawei from their 5G networks" because the Chinese company "represents a much greater risk" than other providers.

"The lack of swift action exposes the European Union as a whole to a clear risk ," Thomas Regnier, the European Commission's spokesperson for Technological Sovereignty, told Efe when asked about the agreement Spain has signed with Huawei for the supply of wiretapping services.

Regnier recalled that the EU executive had already asked Member States in 2019 to take concrete measures to assess the risks that the development of the 5G network could pose to cybersecurity , in a document in which it warned against Huawei.

In this regard, Brussels "urges Member States to implement" these recommendations.

The heads of the U.S. Senate and House intelligence committees, Tom Cotton and Rick Crawford, respectively, last week asked the Donald Trump administration to review its intelligence-sharing agreements with Spain in light of its contract with Huawei .

The chairs of the Senate and House Intelligence Committees, Tom Cotton and Rick Crawford, sent a letter on July 16 to the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard.

The lawmakers noted that Spain's Interior Ministry allegedly awarded contracts worth €12.3 million to Huawei to provide servers and consulting services for Spain's wiretapping systems and stressed that the company "has close ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)."

"We are writing to urge you to review your intelligence-sharing agreements with the Spanish government to ensure that any information shared with Spanish intelligence, defense, and state security services does not reveal U.S. national security secrets to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)," they wrote.