The European Union is actively pursuing “technological sovereignty” to reduce its deep-seated reliance on both United States tech giants and Chinese manufacturing. Amid rising geopolitical tensions and supply chain vulnerabilities, European policymakers are implementing stricter digital regulations while boosting domestic industries through initiatives like the EU Chips Act. However, experts warn that achieving complete independence remains highly challenging due to Europe’s existing gaps in venture capital, cloud infrastructure, and access to critical raw materials required for advanced technologies.
- The European Union’s push for tech sovereignty aims to secure its digital infrastructure and reduce dependency on foreign superpowers.
- Major legislative efforts, such as the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and Digital Services Act (DSA), target the market dominance of American technology conglomerates.
- Under the EU Chips Act, the bloc aims to increase its share of global semiconductor production to 20% by 2030.
- A lack of late-stage venture capital and a heavy reliance on non-European cloud services remain significant barriers to growth for European tech startups.
- Geopolitical tensions with China have accelerated EU efforts to de-risk supply chains and secure domestic sources for critical raw materials.
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Energy = gdp and autonomy
europeon policies over the past two decades pretty much crippled (or heavily stunted) their nations
you cant have production or tech sovereignty without a massive increase in the energy grid
this is on top of europeons being brain drained because their countries are so self destructive
Europe needs to have its own system that it can control and regulate just like how the United States has. Its own and China has its own. It's better for them and it's better for the world
Gotta put your money where your mouth is! How many MEPs are using a phone and laptop with European or OSS software? That's how you incentivize local companies: by using their services!
I don't think it's fair to compare pretty much anything with Silicon Valley. That's an industry in itself, in Europe investors will never put so much money in all the crazy ideas as the Americans are doing. They also have much more probably from all the money printing, so really there's no way to compete there.
More rules, more laws and more tax grab via fines! The usual EU playbook that got them in this mess in the first place. Can't compete on the global stage so instead you have to try and regulate your way out but only dig youselves a deeper hole.
Do not deregulate! Take a lesson from our experience with the tech-bros.
We don't need to deregulate. We need to pull the internal marker together and get rid of internal barriers. EU startups don't go to California to get less regulation they go there to get a cheque that isn't available here because our markets are fragmented to 27.
We do NOT need to deregulate!
We regulate first and deregulate later where necessary. Because doing it the other way around causes the public to suffer unnecessary until enough regulations are put into place.
Look at the US citizens. Who the hell wants to live like that?
But if they just signed an agreement for the supply of chips with the US, India, Korea etc. What a bunch of useless bureaucrats.
The abacus and slide rule are so cool. The foundation of ‘most’ tech hardware and software is the US. I would be so much more concerned about evil-ai-agents infecting open-source with three degree of separation attacks.
If you ban American tech then The USA should ban French wine and German cars.
Anthropic is not basic digital infrastructure…. it's a plague
No to deregulation! More EU sovereignty!
Everyone should switch to european digital services now!! And encourage other people as well!
At this point, it's too late. When a new technology emerges, governments should focus on allowing it to grow, scale, and prove itself before imposing heavy regulations. Europe chose to regulate many emerging technologies before building globally competitive companies in those sectors.
Meanwhile, the United States and China diversified their economies and became leaders in new industries such as EVs, robotics, AI, space technology, and social media. Europe has fallen behind in many of these areas.
You can also see that some of Germany's traditional industrial strengths, such as the automotive industry, are facing increasing competition. Chinese EV manufacturers have become major global competitors, challenging the dominance that German automakers once enjoyed.
Europe does not lead in software (social media or other major consumer platforms), AI, or robotics. Those areas are currently led by China and several Asian countries, particularly Japan and South Korea. As for ASML, while it is a Dutch company, the United States has significant influence because of its investments and because many of the critical hardware and software components used in ASML's lithography machines come from U.S. companies.
EU enacted million acts, laws and regulations each year.
China and US file million patent rights each year.
That's make the differencea.
european money been funding innovation in other places, why? what do european investors look for when investing, more regulation?
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