European Commission President Ursula von der Layen attends a press conference after the European Union Special Union Special Summit for European Defense Discussing Ukraine, in Brussels, Belgium, March 6, 2025.
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Airbus More than 90 other European companies and groups of European UNHCR lobby have called for the establishment of a sovereign infrastructure fund to increase public investment and enhance independence in the region in the technology sector.
In a message on March 14 addressed to the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Lin and the Vice President of Henna Verconine, the signers – which include Dassault systemsThe resource of French cloud services Ovhcloud And the European Employment Start Network-stressed the need for technological self-reliance in Europe because it faces a “flagrant truth” after “developments in relations between the United States/European Union.”
“Building strategic self -government in the main sectors is now an urgent necessity recognized throughout Europe,” the letter said. He stressed that Europe is now in a “backward mode” in the digital space-after the United States and China have surpassed it-and it will have almost complete dependence on non-European technologies in less than three years at the current rate.
“Europe needs to restore this initiative, and it becomes more technically independent in all critical digital infrastructure layers: from logical infrastructure – applications, platforms, media, artificial intelligence frameworks and models – to physical infrastructure – constitutes security, and agreed to computing.
Among the most important requests for the message to obtain the “pragmatical industrial policy strategy” is the need to pump Europe to pump official requirements for the “European” purchase as well as motivate the private sector to direct towards similar purchases-with “not to exclude non-European players, but to create a space where European suppliers can legally compete (and justify length).”
The letter also calls for the establishment of a sovereign infrastructure fund for public investment in technology, especially in “dense capital” projects such as quantum and potatoes, and to request “important funds” that were allocated or subscribed by the European Investment Bank and the National Finance Authority.
Europe is ready to gain momentum in the technology sector, as executive managers and capitalists call for an additional investment to invest and regulate growth renewal – especially in the prosperous intelligence area.
Amid the United States's entryistics policies and the hypothesis of customs tariffs, the European Union has increasingly sought to protect growth and enhance its independence, earlier this month, suggests financial measures that could mobilize approximately 800 billion euros (872 billion dollars) towards higher defense spending in the region.
This developing story is updated.
