{"id":306993,"date":"2026-01-27T23:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T23:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/306993\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T23:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T23:50:07","slug":"eu-tech-chief-sounds-alarm-over-dependence-on-foreign-tech-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/306993\/","title":{"rendered":"EU tech chief sounds alarm over dependence on foreign tech \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The intervention at the event \u2014 titled Europe\u2019s race for digital leadership \u2014 comes at a particularly sensitive time in transatlantic relations, after U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s recent threats to take over Greenland forced European politicians to consider retaliation.<\/p>\n<p>Virkkunen declined to single out the United States as one of the partners that the EU must de-risk from. She pointed to the Covid-19 pandemic and Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine as incidents that point to Europe&#8217;s \u201cvulnerabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said the U.S. is a key partner, but also noted that \u201cit\u2019s very important for our competitiveness and for our security, that we have also our own capacity, that we are not dependent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Commission\u2019s executive vice president for tech sovereignty swung behind the idea of using public contracts as a way to support the development of European technology companies and products.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should use public procurement, of course, much more actively also to boost our own growing technologies in the European Union,\u201d she said when asked about her stance on plans to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/news\/208534\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Buy European<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those plans, being pushed by the French EU commissioner St\u00e9phane S\u00e9journ\u00e9 to ensure that billions in procurement contracts flow to EU businesses, are due to be outlined in an upcoming Industrial Accelerator Act that has been delayed multiple times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The intervention at the event \u2014 titled Europe\u2019s race for digital leadership \u2014 comes at a particularly sensitive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[289,79,6390,17767,18,150592,17769,19,150593,4286,17,14965,4276,11028,150594,150595,14662,40784,82,384],"class_list":{"0":"post-306993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-cloud","11":"tag-competitiveness","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-eu-china-relations","14":"tag-henna-virkkunen","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-industrial-strategy","17":"tag-industry","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-manufacturing","20":"tag-microchips","21":"tag-procurement","22":"tag-public-procurement","23":"tag-stephane-sejourne","24":"tag-strategic-autonomy","25":"tag-supply-chains","26":"tag-technology","27":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115969748082813620","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}