>HELSINKI, Nov 17 (Reuters) – Europe is currently too reliant on China for technologies and should be wary of this dependency, Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin said on Thursday.
>”Let’s be honest, we have vulnerabilities already. We see it when we look at chips or semiconductors, we are too dependent,” Marin said, speaking at Slush, an annual startup event in Helsinki.
>Marin said Europe had lessons to learn from its dependency on Russian energy that led to the ongoing energy crisis in Europe, as well as the lack of medical supplies seen during the COVID pandemic.
And too dependent on the USA for software, even though for software there are alternatives that could make us really independent and not vendor locked to Microsoft’s products.
2 comments
17 November 2022, updated 12:35 GMT+2.
Excerpt:
>HELSINKI, Nov 17 (Reuters) – Europe is currently too reliant on China for technologies and should be wary of this dependency, Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin said on Thursday.
>”Let’s be honest, we have vulnerabilities already. We see it when we look at chips or semiconductors, we are too dependent,” Marin said, speaking at Slush, an annual startup event in Helsinki.
>Marin said Europe had lessons to learn from its dependency on Russian energy that led to the ongoing energy crisis in Europe, as well as the lack of medical supplies seen during the COVID pandemic.
^Reporting ^by ^Anne ^Kauranen; ^editing ^by ^Terje ^Solsvik ^and ^Mark ^Potter
And too dependent on the USA for software, even though for software there are alternatives that could make us really independent and not vendor locked to Microsoft’s products.