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title: "When you think about it.. It's quite astounding that the European Union needed…"
date: 2026-02-04T11:44:11.956Z
author: Ricardo Mendes
url: https://rmendes.net/notes/2026/02/04/235ec/
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# When you think about it.. It's quite astounding that the European Union needed…

When you think about it.. It's quite astounding that the European Union needed a rogue disruption in the like of Trump to finally think about decoupling its Tech dependency from the USA and also needed a war in Ukraine to finally start to think about its own defense from a sovereign perspective, in both cases it's going to take decades to pivot but better now than never? 

Réf https://apnews.com/article/europe-digital-sovereignty-big-tech-9f5388b68a0648514cebc8d92f682060