The EU Wants Its Own Tech Supply Chain

It’s little secret that Europe is dependent on foreign technology—particularly U.S. tech—for office software, cloud services, AI, and more. This may have been easy to accept just several years ago, but when the United States government now openly threatens European countries with military action, there is growing anxiety in Europe that technology dependency is a liability. One 3 June, the European Commission, the European Union’s executive branch, introduced a sprawling package that seeks to shift the tech supply chain in Europe’s favor. This Tech Sovereignty Package contains four parts. Two are proposed laws—the European Chips Act 2.0 and the Cloud and AI Development Act . The other two are broader strategies—one to promote open-source software and one to shore up the EU’s electric grid .