Two legislative proposals as well as a strategy and a roadmap are included in the package for technological independence the Commission is now presenting, which was developed during the spring.
"We cannot afford to be dependent on others for the technology that keeps our hospitals running, our energy grids stable and our services secure," President Ursula von der Leyen writes in a press release.
Specifically, proposals include faster permitting and increased cooperation to develop and procure computer chips, as well as more support for research and innovation for AI and cloud services. A four-point scale is proposed to define which information should be considered so sensitive that it needs to be handled domestically, rather than stored in cloud services outside the EU.
