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Comment by Robert D. Atkinson
Innovation economist; ITIF president
Europe's primary economic challenge is its anemic tech-driven productivity growth, not its use of American technology. [...] Embracing protectionism will do nothing to remedy this failure, nor will it miraculously create new European technology champions, but it would further slow digital adoption. [...] The only winner of European protectionism is China.
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(2026)
3h ago
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Verified. The quote is from Robert D. Atkinson (ITIF president), "The Case Against the EU's Tech Sovereignty Package," ITIF, June 11, 2026 — matching the source_url. WebFetch returned HTTP 403 (ITIF blocks the fetcher), but a web search corroborated the article exists at exactly that URL, authored by ITIF, and confirmed the verbatim phrase "The only winner of European protectionism is China." The quote argues against European tech protectionism/sovereignty, so the "against" vote on the statement "The EU should build sovereign AI infrastructure to reduce dependence on US cloud providers" correctly aligns. Year (2026), author attribution, and vote direction all check out.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 2h ago
replying to Robert D. Atkinson