The EU-US rift triggers a call for made-in-Europe tech.
The EU is under pressure to step up its tech game and wean itself off a heavy reliance on US digital infrastructure and services as transatlantic ties hit a new low.
Making Europe more technologically “sovereign” has gone mainstream. The European Commission now has its first-ever “technology sovereignty” chief, Henna Virkkunen.
#Europe #EU #Tech #Cloud #SaaS #DigitalSovereignty #Politics #Policy #MadeInEurope
Our MEPs have drawn up a 9-point action plan outlining urgent measures to strengthen Europe's ability to defend its values, economy and security.
This is the content of the letter they have sent to European leaders ahead of tomorrow's European Council meeting in Brussels.
Facts matter. 🇺🇦
Paris — France is preparing a new military aid package for Ukraine worth more than $211 million from the interest earned on frozen Russian assets, its defense minister said in an interview published Sunday. Sebastien Lecornu, a close ally of President Emmanuel Macron, in the interview with the Tribune Dimanche newspaper, described the suspension of U.S. weapons deliveries to Ukraine as a 'heavy blow' to Kyiv's fight against the Russian invasion. 'This year we will mobilize, thanks to the interests of frozen Russian assets, a new package of 195 million euros ($211,253,250)' for Ukraine, he said. This will enable the
You want to create a European tech alternative? Start enforcing digital antitrust. Not fines, break-ups and forced sales of local branches. If the US can do it to Tiktok the EU can do it to Meta, Amazon, Google and the like.
100%.
Thx for saying it. And that’s so much not limited to tech…
Everyday, I look at our French ‘exception culturelle’ with some kind of respect. It’s a law that make it so small bookshops have not been destroyed by Amazon (Amazon is forced to sell books at the exact same price as your local shop) and which, among many other things, make it so it’s mandatory to have 30% or so of local/French content in main media. That’s a great law and because it’s a great law, I wonder for how much longer it will hold against the US endless appetite and against the voracity of many here in the EU too that are more than willing to fill their pockets in the process of killing and burying local cultural productions.
Anyone who says
"I dont care much about #politics
is really saying
"I know whats going on, and im fine with it. Im Ok with the people running the show and what they are doing."
Im sorry but we dont share the same values.
I refuse to sit by and do nothing and let #fascism take over the world.
I cant fight, but i can use my words to try and change minds attitudes and votes.
And thats real the meaning of #DEMOCRACY!