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Advancing Europe’s strategic autonomy is a key goal of the European Fee – significantly on the subject of the digital area.
The COVID pandemic has demonstrated the necessity to speed up the transition to a cleaner, extra digital and extra resilient financial and industrial mannequin with a view to keep and strengthen Europe’s aspirations for sustainable competitiveness.
Underneath the French Presidency the EU handed a groundbreaking piece of laws – the Digital Markets Act. It would restrict the facility of gatekeeping platforms and goals to maintain digital markets honest and open to competitors – a prerequisite for sovereignty. Paris additionally supported the Fee’s plans to create trusted alternate options to non-EU choices, by creating a European cloud ecosystem and proposing a European Digital Identification. With the brand new chip act, Commissioner Breton desires to scale back dependencies within the semiconductor sector, because the race for probably the most superior chips is a race for technological and industrial management.
These are essential steps, however many stakeholders are searching for extra underneath the Czech presidency. Europe continues to be largely depending on non-European corporations for many of its digital life. Though the New Knowledge Act is meant to assist the European knowledge economic system flourish, a lot of the commercial knowledge generated in Europe is to date saved and processed by cloud suppliers overseas, and user-driven innovation comes primarily from exterior the EU. To thrive economically, Europe should regain extra autonomy over knowledge and digital expertise.
What different coverage devices are acceptable to strengthen European competitiveness at a time when the variety of international challenges is steadily growing? How can the Czech Presidency assist realise the total potential of Digital to advance the Inexperienced transition? And the way can we be sure that all actors who profit from dependable highspeed connectivity pretty contribute to the funding in digital infrastructure, as required by formidable connectivity targets set out by the Digital Decade 2030?
Rewatch this EURACTIV Hybrid Convention to search out out in regards to the outcomes of the French Presidency’s digital priorities and the challenges the Czech Presidency faces in advancing Europe’s inexperienced and digital transformation.
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