Yes, but it's incorrect to assume that there can be a globally competitive “made in #EU" made in #Japan" "made in #US" chip industry anytime soon. Capacity building in this sector is a long-term process, goes beyond industrial policy & large spending! We need ethical connectivity
But we cannot say the same of #China! In the last decade, China’s growing independence presents an
extraordinary shift, moving China away from #European countries & from #BRICS members. 1/1
The entire global structure of ICT trade has become China, the only country, digitally autonomous through its contested technology & industrial policies choice and “Made in China 2025” to data localization laws & other strict digital regulations....1/2
You can wonder why China has digital autonomy, it's the result of broader institutional decisions, long-term investment, the meticulous construction of a national patent system to protect IP and modernization of China’s research and innovation system. 1/3
"Do we want China to fail" Nobody wants to see China fail. The #Ukrainian war & #Covid pandemic have demonstrated the existing limitations & risk of our dependency of #China, it has challenged our abilities to act in line with its interests in an interconnected 🌐. That’s all 1/2
Currently, #China controls a vast majority of those resources, providing Beijing with a powerful tool - export restrictions in a challenging geopolitical context. China will never be poor 1/3.
My today message to #EU Leaders in @EUCouncil: in a Union of equals, there can be no second class citizens! Just follow the #EuropeanParliament which is united in supporting #Romania & #Bulgaria’s full accession to Schengen! #Mythread 1/1
#Romania and #Bulgaria have committed to implementing the #Schengen acquis and already proved themselves in the way they addressed the challenges and managed their borders in the face of refugees fleeing the war in #Ukraine. 1/2
#Council unnecessarily denied a right to Romania & Bulgaria, for 11 years. #Romania has proved that it could manage an external border when over 1 million of refugees crossed their borders fleeing the war in #Ukraine 1/3
#EP plenary held a debate on countering the anti-European and anti-Ukrainian #propaganda of #Putin’s European cronies. At the initiative of #Renew, it was focused on the relations between #Russia and extremist #European political parties. #Mythread 1/1
#MEPs of the various political groups used the opportunity for attacking each other for their alleged ties to the #Putin regime. #EuropeanParliament 1/2
On behalf of the Council, Minister for European Affairs @MikulasBek highlighted: great concern the growing manipulation of European public opinion by Kremlin-sponsored sources with the objective of polarising societies; 1/3
No more domination of technological giants in 🇪🇺 VP @vestager said #DSA#DMA are basic pillars of the efforts to impose stricter rules on #usedandabused technology groups& establish regulations suitable for #Internet era. 1/2
More to be done via a new special platform to be co-chaired by #Kyiv and #EuropeanCommission! Good initiative, but it will probably not automatically scale up private finance & create conditions for companies to think long-term! 1/2
Many questions still need to be answered: How will #EU support #Ukraine's neighboring countries affected? What are the #privatesector priority sectors: #digital solutions, #green transition, #water and #sanitation, and in which countries? 1/3
#EU backs into the diplomatic efforts btw #Russia#US#Nato to de-escalate the military conflict #Ukraine. Long dinner at Kremlin but not my kind of dinner. #Macron discussed his 3 de-escalation plan. #Mythread#MyPhoto 1/1
First proposal of Macron for de-escalation it was of course...#Russia to show a gesture of de-escalation. #Putin reassured to withdraw his troops from #Belarus after their joint military exercises, but said nothing about his troops at the border with #Ukraine. #Macron#NATO 1/2
2nd proposal of Macron is on new security architecture (interesting for EU) and guarantees Moscow wants from Nato and the US: mutual limitation of military deployments, transparency, a limitation to short/intermediate-range missile deployments. 1/3