EUobserver sat down for an interview with Paul Timmers, who served as director for digital and cybersecurity in the European Commission, and is now a geopolitics and technology professor at KU Leuven in Belgium and the European University in Cyprus
Timmers recently published a briefing on the need to defend Europe’s digital infrastructures in an era of competing sovereignty in tech.
His work bridges geopolitics and information technology, as the EU urgently seeks to become autonomous in the digital sphere.
He spoke candidly on our future, what compromises we can make, and how Europe stands to lose if we not only source our technology from abroad, but sell also our values, and autonomy, in exchange.
A few terms are used interchangeably to talk about European tech control – what are the correct definitions of “sovereignty,” “autonomy,” and “resilience” in this area?
