\u201cWe don\u2019t really have a shared vocabulary to define what digital sovereignty is. But we do have a shared understanding of what it means not to have digital sovereignty,” said Yann Lechelle, CEO of French AI company Probabl.<\/p>\n
Berlin isn\u2019t the only capital trying to convince Europe to ensure its digital sovereignty remains open to U.S. interests.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Austria, too, wants to take \u201ca leading role\u201d in nailing down that tone, State Secretary Alexandre Pr\u00f6ll previously told<\/a> POLITICO. The country has been on a mission to agree a \u201ccommon charter\u201d<\/a> emphasizing that sovereignty should \u201cnot be misinterpreted as protectionist independence,\u201d according to a draft reported by POLITICO<\/a>.<\/p>\n That \u201cwill create a clear political roadmap for a digital Europe that acts independently while remaining open to trustworthy partners,\u201d Pr\u00f6ll said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Next month’s Berlin gathering will be crucial in setting a direction. French President Emmanuel Macron and Merz are both expected to attend.<\/p>\n \u201cThe summit is intended to send a strong signal that Europe is aware of the challenges and is actively advancing digital sovereignty,\u201d a spokesperson for the German digital ministry said in a statement, adding that \u201cthis is not about autarky but about strengthening its own capabilities and potential.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOne summit will not be enough,\u201d said Johannes Sch\u00e4tzl, a Social Democrat member of the German Bundestag. \u201cBut if there will be an agreement saying that we want to take the path toward greater digital sovereignty together, that alone would already be a very important signal.\u201d<\/p>\n Mathieu Pollet reported from Brussels, Emile Marzolf reported from Paris and Laura H\u00fclsemann and Frida Preu\u00df reported from Berlin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe don\u2019t really have a shared vocabulary to define what digital sovereignty is. But we do have a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[7907,1394,346,14035,2437,1442,6215,3457,2814,34,2000,299,1214,36,1945,1824,9890,806,6084,1302,1197,2441,547,1217,811,7154,7497,6648,1201,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-521584","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-austria","9":"tag-big-tech","10":"tag-cars","11":"tag-cloud","12":"tag-companies","13":"tag-competition","14":"tag-cooperation","15":"tag-cybersecurity","16":"tag-data","17":"tag-emmanuel-macron","18":"tag-eu","19":"tag-europe","20":"tag-exports","21":"tag-france","22":"tag-friedrich-merz","23":"tag-germany","24":"tag-industrial-strategy","25":"tag-industry","26":"tag-infrastructure","27":"tag-innovation","28":"tag-investment","29":"tag-markets","30":"tag-mobile","31":"tag-protectionism","32":"tag-security","33":"tag-software","34":"tag-strategic-autonomy","35":"tag-supply-chains","36":"tag-trade","37":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115422234142055956","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}