Brussels, 13/03/2001 (Agence Europe) - The Republic majority in the American Congress reiterated, last week, to an EU delegation its hostility towards the 1998 Directive on data protection. Billy Tauzin, President of the Trade and Consumer Protection Sub-Committee, stated that the European Directive leads to the imposition of one of the most significant barriers to the freedom of trade ever seen. This Directive allows the Member States to suspend the transfer of data towards third countries...