Airbus and others ask for a sovereign background and superior technological autonomy in Europe

Airbus And another 90 European companies and lobby groups have asked the European Commission to create a sovereign infrastructure fund to boost public investment and strengthen the autonomy of the region in the technological sector.

In a letter of March 14 addressed to the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and Executive Vice President Henna Virkkunen, the signatories, which include Dassault systemsFrench cloud service provider Ovhcloud And the European Startup network: emphasized the need for the technological self -sufficiency of Europe, since it faces a “marked reality” after “developments in the relations of the United States. UU./ue”.

“Building strategic autonomy in the key sectors is now an urgent imperative recognized throughout Europe,” said the letter. He stressed that Europe is now in a “lagged position” in the digital space, since the United States and China have exceeded significantly, and will have an almost complete dependence on non -European technologies in less than three years at the current rate.

“Europe needs to recover the initiative and become more technologically independent in all layers of its critical digital infrastructure: from the logical infrastructure: applications, platforms, media, AI framework and models up to physical infrastructure: chips, computer science, storage and connectivity,” says the letter, warning that the “current dependencies of Europe create security and reliability of risks, refer to our risks. Saver, and our growth hurts and our growth hurts and our growth hurts and our growth hurts. “

The main request of the letter of a “pragmatic industrial policy strategy” is the need for Europe to inject a formal requirement for the public sector “Ear Europe”, as well as encourage the private sector to direct similar purchases, with a objective “not to exclude non -European actors, but create space where European suppliers can legitimately compete (and justify the investment).”

The letter also requires the creation of a sovereign infrastructure fund for public investments in technology, particularly in “capital intensive” projects, such as Quantum and Chips, requesting “significant” funds assigned or signed by the European Investment Bank and by national public financing bodies.

Europe strives to gain impulse in the technological sector, where executives and risk capitalists have been asking for additional investment and regulation of laxos to rejuvenate growth, particularly in the boom in the space of AI.

Amid the aggressive tariff policies and impositions, the European Union has increasingly tried to safeguard growth and strengthen its autonomy, earlier this month, proposing fiscal measures that could mobilize almost 800 billion euros ($ 872 billion) towards the higher defense expenditure of the region.

This developing story is being updated.