The European Union wants to take control of its own data, part of a broader effort to wrest digital influence from large companies in the U.S. and China.

The EU’s executive arm on Wednesday proposed new legislation aimed at creating an EU-wide data marketplace to facilitate sharing of industrial and government information—provided the data is protected according to European standards, under the eyes of the bloc’s regulators.

While…

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