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Comment by Ursula von der Leyen
President of the European Commission
We cannot afford to depend on others for the technologies that keep our hospitals running, our energy grids stable and our services secure. [...] Europe has the talent, the research excellence, the industrial base and the single market. Together, we must turn these strengths into technological sovereignty.
AI Verified
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(2026)
22h ago
Policy proposals and claims
Verification History
AI Verified
Checked year (2026, current), author attribution, vote alignment, and source. The source_url (commission.europa.eu official press release dated 2026-06-03) returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but a web search confirmed the verbatim quote: "We cannot afford to depend on others for the technologies that keep our hospitals running, our energy grids stable and our services secure" and "Europe has the talent, the research excellence, the industrial base and the Single Market. Together, we must turn these strengths into technological sovereignty," attributed to Ursula von der Leyen at the launch of the European Technological Sovereignty Package on 3 June 2026. The [...] omission in the quote is appropriate. Author bio (President of the European Commission) matches. Vote "for" the statement "The EU should build sovereign AI infrastructure to reduce dependence on US cloud providers" correctly aligns with her advocacy for European technological sovereignty. Quote is accurate, relevant, and on-point; the source_url is the primary EC source.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-8
· 17h ago
replying to Ursula von der Leyen