The European Union has launched a major initiative aimed at strengthening its domestic technology industry and reducing reliance on foreign suppliers, placing cloud infrastructure, artificial intelligence, semiconductors and open-source technologies at the center of its latest industrial strategy.
The package comes at a time when technology has become increasingly tied to national security, trade policy and geopolitical competition. European policymakers have intensified efforts to secure critical digital infrastructure following Russia's war in Ukraine, rising tensions between China and the West, and growing concerns about access to technologies controlled by a handful of foreign companies.
