Europe faces a new technological and strategic concern. Senior military commanders have warned that the alleged “technological sovereignty” of the Old Continent may not be such and may even imply security problems.
For European intelligence and military command, the key is that the community armies present a real dependence on software United States to manage and execute critical systems. This affects the satellitesto the control systemsalso at communications and the storage of information and data sensitive. And of course to pieces as essential as the latest generation aircraft which the main armies in Europe have.
The first danger that admit off the record is that the big American technology companies ‘turn off the tap’in the form of access restrictions to the European market, something that would greatly compromise security throughout the area.
For a European officer, the supposed ‘sovereignty’ regional at technological level “it is neither realistic nor useful”. “The majority of our European platforms depend on backend American… so it is very difficult to foresee anything happening in the short term. It’s simply not possible,” he clarifies. Financial Times.
The big capitals seem to have set about the task, in haste, of trying to disassociate themselves from the total technological dependence of the ‘Atlantic ally’. So, France is promoting the development of faster and more efficient sovereign defense capabilities.
It is no coincidence that Emmanuel Macron took the floor at the Munich Security Conference a few days ago to warn of the same thing. “We have to accelerate and deliver clearly all the components of a geopolitical power, in defensein technology and in the risk reduction against all the great powers to be much more independent“said the French president before the eyes of the world.
The EU gets its act together (or so it promises)
Brussels took note a long time ago and promises present in spring what you call a “technology sovereignty package“whose bases are still unknown. A fundamental intention is known, ‘escape’ from the feared dependence on US ‘cloud’ providers in favor of our own sector.
The president of the European Commission cited her three priorities in the matter at the same Munich forum. For Ursula von der Leyen, the EU and Europe as a whole must “protect our interests security” in the key areas of “the datalas technological platforms and the information“.
Optimistic, Von der Leyen congratulated herself for knowing that “we have European leaders in defense technology who inspire; we just need to encourage them,” before warning that their entry into the market “must be rapid” to be truly effective.
