EU launches major tech push to break US and China dependence

EuroNews · 🇫🇷 public France · Jun 03, 2026 · 1244 words · By Luca Bertuzzi; Gregoire Lory

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The EU is betting big on cloud computing and chips to reduce its technological dependence on the US and China, and to re-enter the global tech race.

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What happened

The EU is betting big on cloud computing and chips to reduce its technological dependence on the US and China, and to re-enter the global tech race.

Why it matters

But whether it will succeed and how the two superpowers will react remain open questions.

Common ground

The European Commission has presented a sweeping tech sovereignty package to boost homegrown technologies and reduce dependency on American and Chinese companies.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Appeal to Fear: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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What evidence would most clearly confirm or weaken the claim that Mistral AI [is] the only EU-based company at the cutting edge of the AI race?
How does this story connect EU-US-China Geopolitics with Digital Infrastructure over the next few days?

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 15 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Mistral AI [is] the only EU-based company at the cutting edge of the AI race.”

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The provided Wikipedia and web results for AI do not mention Mistral AI or evaluate its status as the 'only' EU-based company at the cutting edge.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and dec…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In artificial intelligence, a foundation model (FM), also known as large x model (LxM, where "x" is a variable representing any text, image, sound, etc.), is a machine learning or deep learning model …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_model

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research organization headquartered in San Francisco, consisting of OpenAI Group PBC, a for-profit public benefit corporation (PBC), partially contro…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI

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Claim 2: “the AI market is dominated by the likes of OpenAI, Anthropic and DeepSeek.”

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Claim 3: “the EU is set to join a US-led initiative, Pax Silica, to secure chip supply chains”

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Claim 4: “Certain key sectors, such as automotive, will also be required to diversify their chip suppliers in certain circumstances”

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Sources discuss the mandate for European carmakers to diversify chip suppliers and the general EU goal to diversify semiconductor supply chains.

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web search NEUTRAL — Despite producing relatively basic semiconductors, including those essential for car lights, Nexperia held a significant market share, estimated at 10% globally and up to 40% in the European automotiv…
https://nationalinsider.co.uk/european-carmakers-confront-ma…

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web search NEUTRAL — Demand for semiconductors is booming amid growth in emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence. Countries and regions including the US and EU want to diversify semiconductor supply chains; …
https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/03/how-africa-could-hel…

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web search NEUTRAL — As part of diversifying supply chains outside of China, automotive OEMs and Tier 1/2 suppliers are taking steps to establish new supplier networks in alternate regions, which requires navigating regul…
https://ycp.com/insights/article/supply-chain-diversificatio…

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Claim 5: “Amazon, Microsoft and Google account for 80% of the European market [in the cloud sector]”

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Web results indicate that Amazon, Microsoft, and Google dominate the European cloud market, with one source specifically mentioning IaaS and PaaS services account for over 80% of the market and another listing their combined market shares.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Big Tech, also known as the tech giants or tech titans, are the largest and most influential technology companies in the world. It most commonly refers to the five dominant firms in the U.S. technolog…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Tech

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Digital Markets Act (DMA) is an EU regulation that aims to make the digital economy fairer and more contestable. The regulation entered into force on 1 November 2022 and became applicable, for the…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Markets_Act

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Project Nimbus (Hebrew: פרויקט נימבוס) is a project by the American technology companies Google and Amazon providing the Israeli government with technology services including infrastructure for cloud …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Nimbus

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Claim 6: “The EU imports most of its tech services and products from abroad.”

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While search results mention trade deficits in services and intermediate service imports, there is no definitive, multi-source confirmation that the 'majority' of all tech services and products are imported.

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web search NEUTRAL — Over the period 2017 to 2025, EU imports of intermediate categories recorded the most significant increases: intermediate services (+75 pp) and intermediate ...
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php…

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web search NEUTRAL — Feb 26, 2026 ... This means the EU exports more physical goods to the U.S. than it imports in return. This pattern does not extend to services, which are not ...
https://www.facebook.com/EurostatStatistics/posts/in-2025-th…

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web search NEUTRAL — Oct 1, 2024 ... Introduction: The MERICS Trade Dependency Database pinpoints product areas to "de-risk" · it has a significant trade deficit in that good, as a ...
https://merics.org/en/report/growing-asymmetry-mapping-impor…

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Claim 7: “The most advanced chips, used to develop cutting-edge AI technologies, are designed in the US and produced in Taiwan or South Korea.”

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Evidence confirms that advanced AI chips are designed in the US and manufactured primarily in Taiwan (TSMC) and South Korea (Samsung).

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — DeepSeek is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by the Chinese company DeepSeek. Released on 20 January 2025, DeepSeek-R1 surpassed ChatGPT as the most downloaded freeware app on th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepSeek_(chatbot)

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Pax Silica is a United States-led international initiative focused on securing supply chains for advanced technologies such as semiconductors, artificial intelligence (AI) and rare earth elements. The…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Silica

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Claim 8: “former Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi argued that most of the recent divergence in GDP growth between the EU and the US could be explained by digital technologies.”

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Multiple sources explicitly reference Mario Draghi's report/statements that the GDP growth divergence between the EU and US is largely explained by the tech sector.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Christine Madeleine Odette Lagarde (French: [kʁistin madlɛn ɔdɛt laɡaʁd]; née Lallouette, IPA: [lalwɛt]; born 1 January 1956) is a French politician and lawyer who has been the president of the Europe…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Lagarde

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The euro area (EA), commonly called the eurozone (EZ), is a currency union of 21 member states of the European Union (EU) that have adopted the euro (€) as their primary currency and sole legal tender…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurozone

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Next Generation EU (NGEU) is a European Commission economic recovery package to support the EU member states to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, in particular those that have been particularly hard…
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Claim 9: “The digital market is dominated by US giants such as Google, Microsoft and Apple, and Chinese conglomerates such as Alibaba and TikTok-owner ByteDance.”

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Multiple sources identify US giants (Google, Microsoft, Apple, Meta, Amazon) and Chinese firms (ByteDance) as the dominant 'gatekeepers' or powers in the EU digital market.

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web search NEUTRAL — The Digital Markets Act isn’t complicated. It identifies the biggest tech platforms — Apple, Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, ByteDance — and calls them what they are: gatekeepers.
https://medium.com/@StackedThoughts/why-is-europe-the-only-a…

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web search NEUTRAL — Conheça o Gemini, o assistente de IA do Google. Receba ajuda para escrever, planejar, ter ideias e muito mais. Conheça o poder da IA generativa.
https://gemini.google.com/?hl=pt-BR

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web search NEUTRAL — The EU’s vast digital market is open to all.It relies on control and closure, mass surveillance and the defence of local norms. It is based on an autonomous digital infrastructure – cloud, 5G, AI – ba…
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/18/europe…

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Claim 10: “The draft law introduces four different levels of digital sovereignty that public authorities must consider when purchasing cloud services”

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Web sources confirm the Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA) defines 'four assurance levels for cloud and AI sovereignty' for public bodies.

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web search NEUTRAL — CADA targets tripling EU data-center capacity within five to seven years. It defines four assurance levels for cloud and AI sovereignty, applied by public bodies using risk assessments, with provider …
https://briefly.co/anchor/EU_data_protection/story/uropes-ne…

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web search NEUTRAL — Most EU citizens want EU-controlled alternatives, with Sweden (94%) leading. New sovereignty package bars non-EU firms from defence/healthcare contracts to prevent kill-switch risks. (euronews).
https://www.nupath.eu/study-europeans-want-digital-sovereign…

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web search NEUTRAL — The comprehensive package includes the newly drafted Cloud and AI Development Act and a significant update to the European Chips Act. For the first time, Brussels has formally codified a legal definit…
https://techgolly.com/news/eu-digital-sovereignty-strategy-b…

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Claim 11: “80% of technology is coming from outside Europe.”

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Claim 12: “the US front largely pacified by the EU-US Turnberry agreement”

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Claim 13: “The European Commission has presented a sweeping tech sovereignty package to boost homegrown technologies and reduce dependency on American and Chinese companies.”

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Multiple web sources confirm the European Commission unveiled a 'European Technological Sovereignty Package' including the Cloud and AI Development Act and Chips Act 2.0 to reduce reliance on non-European services.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In 1975, the People's Republic of China established bilateral relations with the European Community, which later became the European Union. The EU is China's largest trading partner, and China is the …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China–European_Union_relations

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The president of the European Commission, also known as president of the College of Commissioners is the head of the European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union (EU). The president…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The second von der Leyen Commission is the current European Commission, in office since 1 December 2024. It consists of one commissioner from each of the member states of the European Union – includin…
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Claim 14: “the US administration sanctioned several ICC officials — cutting them off from American services woven into daily life, such as Visa, Amazon and Uber.”

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Claim 15: “Dutch company ASML, which holds a near-monopoly on the industrial machinery essential to chip production.”

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