{"id":42539,"date":"2026-09-02T16:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T16:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/42539\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T16:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T16:53:07","slug":"paris-and-the-hague-plan-to-turn-europe-into-a-tech-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/42539\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris and The Hague plan to turn Europe into a &#8216;tech giant&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">France and the Netherlands intend to work closely together on Europe&#8217;s technological development, the countries&#8217; respective leaders announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The European tech sector must be strengthened, French President Emmanuel Macron and Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten emphasized during a joint visit to the Brainport technology centre in Eindhoven.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">They underlined the vital importance of Europe&#8217;s strategic autonomy in the face of geopolitical changes and international conflicts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;If Europe wants to stay in the race, it must consolidate production chains within Europe,&#8221; said Macron. He described Franco-Dutch cooperation as a driving force for innovation, AI, quantum technology and electronics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;The European Union must itself become a technology giant,&#8221; said Jetten. Businesses, research, talent and industry must be better connected, he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Macron and Jetten were accompanied by representatives from tech companies and also visited ASML, a manufacturer of microchip production machinery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Last year, the global market leader invested around \u20ac1.3 billion ($1.5 billion) in the French AI start-up Mistral AI, thereby becoming its largest shareholder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Macron was due to travel on to the UK after the visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France and the Netherlands intend to work closely together on Europe&#8217;s technological development, the countries&#8217; respective leaders announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1456,65,816,5424,12613,5865,27213,42],"class_list":["post-42539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-hague","tag-ai","tag-asml","tag-dutch","tag-european","tag-french","tag-jetten","tag-macron","tag-the-hague"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}