Europe wants to break its US tech addiction.

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More unexpected and transatlantic relations with President Donald Trump reach new climb, calls for Europe to declare freedom from US Tech are increasing loudly. As Europe faces Trump’s tariff, and threatens to tax the US technology until the two sides made a deal to complete the all-out trade war, the feeling of urgency is increasing.

Brussels: More unexpected and transatlantic relations with President Donald Trump reach new climb, calls are increasing loudly for Europe to declare freedom from US Tech.
Most day-to-day technology used by Europeans, from Microsoft to Meta, Apple to Uber, Cloud Computing is American.
The risk that Trump brought before returning to power was warmly debated, but now Europe is becoming serious-emphasizing Europe to favor European firms in public contracts and support European versions of well-known American services.
As Europe faces Trump’s tariff, and threatens to tax the US technology until the two sides made a deal to complete the all-out trade war, the feeling of urgency is increasing.
Tech sovereignty has been ahead and center for weeks: the European Union unveiled its strategy to compete in the race for global artificial intelligence and is talking about its own payment system for rival MasterCard.
“We have to build our abilities when it comes to technologies,” said Henna Virkunen, head of the European Union.
An important concern is that if the tie deteriorates, Washington may potentially weap American digital dominance against Europe – is already targeting the technical rules of the block with Trump’s administration.
It is giving fresh encouragement to the demands by industry, experts and European Union MPs for Europe to increase its infrastructure and cut dependence on a small group of American firms.
European Union legalist Stephanie Yon-Kortin said, “Special rely on non-European technologies expose us to strategic and economic risks,” the European Union lawmaker Stephanie Yon-Kortin said, which focuses on digital issues, pointing to American borders as an example.

‘Buy European’ push

The data paint a Stark picture.
About two-thirds of Europe’s cloud market is in the hands of American Titans: Amazon, Microsoft and Google, while European cloud providers make only two percent.
In 2023, twenty-three percent of BLOC’s total high-tech import came from the United States, which ranks only after China from second-aerospace and pharmaceutical tech to smartphones and chips.
Although the idea of an European social media platform has been reduced to Facebook or X rival, officials believe that in the important AI region, the race is not over.
To promote European AI firms, the European Union has called for a “European preference for important areas and technologies” in public procurement.
“Incentives are important to buy European,” said Benjamin Revolevschi, chief executive of the French cloud provider Ovhcloud.
Alison James, the European government’s relations lead to the Electronics Industry Association IPC, said it briefly: “We need to be able to make goods for us for our major industries and our important industries.”
There are calls for more freedom from US financial technology, as well as Christine Lagarde, the head of European Central Bank, has advocated a “European offer” for rival American (MasterCard, Visa and Papal) and Chinese Payment systems (ALIPAY).
Keeping the call in mind, the European Union capitals have discussed the creation of “truly” European payment system,
Inner sources in the industry also know that technology sovereignty requires large -scale investment, in a moment when the European Union is putting money in defense.
In an initiative called Eurosac, digital policy experts stated that creating a European technical ecosystem with layers including AI would cost 300 billion euros ($ 340 billion) by 2035.
The US Trade Group Chamber of Progress puts it at more than five trillion euros.

Different value

American Vice President JD Vance has targeted technical regulation in condemning Europe’s social and economic models – accusing it of innovating and disrupting American firms incorrectly, many of which have aligned with Trump’s administration.
But for many people, the values-based rules of BLOC are another reason to fight for technical freedom.
After repeated abuses by US Big Tech, the European Union enacted major laws to regulate the online world including the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and the Digital Services Act (DSA).
For the Chagrin of the American digital giants, in 2018 the European Union introduced strict rules for the protection of data from European users, and launched the world’s comprehensive security measures on AI last year.
In practice, supporters say that DMA encourages users to discover European platforms – for example, instead of default from Apple or Google to users, to give users the option of browser.
Bruce Lawson of Norwegian web browser Vyldi stated that “an important and satisfying growth in downloads in Europe”, thanks to the DMA thanks to the big part for DMA.
Lawson insisted that it was not about being anti -American.
“This is about removing dependence on infrastructure that have very different values about data security,” Lawson said.
Pointing to the rules in Europe that “it is not necessary in the United States”, he said that users simply prefer to process their data by an European company “.