The fresh comments suggest Brussels plans to take a tough approach to wean the continent off foreign technology.
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BRUSSELS — An upcoming law to boost the EU’s cloud industry will seek to ensure Europe does not become a technology “colony,” a senior Commission official said Wednesday.
“Unless we get our acts together, we are going to be in the mode of, you know, becoming a technological colony of some kind … where we are not able to develop our own products,” Thibaut Kleiner, director for future networks at the European Commission, told an audience at POLITICO’s AI & Tech Week.
Kleiner is one of the key officials responsible for the Cloud and AI Development Act, which will be proposed as part of the EU’s tech sovereignty package, currently scheduled for May 27.
