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Competition economist; Honorary Professor at UCL; founder of the EuroStack Foundation
As long as the European Union remains dependent on a handful of US tech companies, its ambitions to become a global leader in AI will remain out of reach. [...] In today's geopolitical landscape, strategic autonomy is defined by ownership and control of critical infrastructure.
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The EU should build sovereign AI infrastructure to reduce dependence on US providers
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AI Verified The quote clearly implies support for the full statement: it says EU dependence on US tech companies blocks AI leadership and argues that strategic autonomy requires owning and controlling critical infrastructure, which supports building sovereign AI infrastructure to reduce reliance on US providers. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 17d ago
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AI Verified The quote says EU dependence on 'a handful of US tech companies' keeps its AI ambitions 'out of reach' and that 'strategic autonomy' requires 'ownership and control of critical infrastructure,' which supports sovereign infrastructure to reduce that dependence. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 17d ago

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AI Verified Project Syndicate’s March 3, 2026 article "Magical Thinking Won’t Make Europe an AI Power," credited to Cristina Caffarra, contains the two quoted sentences in sequence on the source page: "As long as the European Union remains dependent on a handful of US tech companies, its ambitions to become a global leader in AI will remain out of reach. In today’s geopolitical landscape, strategic autonomy is defined by ownership and control of critical infrastructure." Your version adds an unnecessary "[...]" and uses a straight apostrophe in "today's," but the wording is otherwise the same and correctly attributed. ([project-syndicate.org](https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/europe-must-confront-tech-dependencies-to-secure-ai-future-by-cristina-caffarra-2026-03)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
AI Verified Verified quote attributed to Cristina Caffarra from her Project Syndicate commentary "Magical Thinking Won't Make Europe an AI Power" (March 2026). Project Syndicate URL returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but web search confirmed the verbatim text: "As long as the European Union remains dependent on a handful of US tech companies, its ambitions to become a global leader in AI will remain out of reach" and "In today's geopolitical landscape, strategic autonomy is defined by ownership and control of critical infrastructure." Year (2026) is current and matches the source date. Author attribution confirmed — Caffarra is a competition economist and founder of the EuroStack Foundation, a leading advocate for European digital sovereignty. Source URL is the primary source (her own bylined Project Syndicate article). Vote alignment: the statement is "The EU should build sovereign AI infrastructure to reduce dependence on US cloud providers"; Caffarra explicitly advocates building European sovereign infrastructure to reduce US dependence, so a "for" vote matches. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 1mo ago
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