[omnimus]

I think it's really clear what europe should do and it's been for a while. Now insert politics and you get governments mostly captured by US influence thanks to propaganda, lobby, deep ties and european upper class invested in US companies.

Any tech focus won't make a dent unless europe gets out of the US grip. And to do that would require huge changes in politics. So far we are seeing turn to far right which is even more tied to US (and US tech) than the current center right heading europe.

We will see. The digital tech moat US might be quite shallow. Maybe in hardware but software in europe is pretty great and most of the moat are network effects. Network effects can be dissolved much easier and faster than hard tech. But it's never been a fair fight.

[dauertewigkeit]

Yes, unfortunately it's very easy to buy our bureaucrats both at national and EU level. Heck most of them style themselves to be Americans! You make very good points.