European Commission Unveils Comprehensive Tech Sovereignty Strategy to Reduce Foreign Dependence
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Ramsha Jahangir
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Summary
The European Commission unveiled its first comprehensive "tech sovereignty" strategy aimed at reducing Europe's reliance on foreign cloud services, semiconductors, and software. The package spans the full technology stack from chips to cloud to AI, and includes plans to bar non-European providers from certain critical areas. It represents the EU's most ambitious attempt yet to achieve technological autonomy while balancing openness.
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Henna Virkkunen, Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy of the European Commission, at a press conference in Brussels on June 3, 2026.
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