Proud European 🇪🇺 Fellow at Stanford 👩🏼💻 column in FT 🗞️Member of European Parliament 2009-2019 📕Author: The Tech Coup
Marietje Schaake
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“The aggressive policies by the Trump administration, attacking international law, as well as the EU and democratic principles, has led to several wake-up calls,” @marietjeschaake.bsky.social
We've now documented around 40 efforts to abandon or replace US technology in Europe
"WIRED documented dozens of public instances of companies, govts, NGOs & ed establishments stepping away from US tech companies in favor of open source or local alternatives. @marietjeschaake.bsky.social: “The aggressive Trump policies, attacking international law, has led to several wake-up calls.”
Politico: "The Pentagon is expected to cancel a plan to send Tomahawk missiles to Germany partly because officials are concerned Russia will view it as an escalation"
Europe can no longer rely on the US in any regard.
It has to produce its own arms.
www.politico.com/news/2026/06...
👀 FT editorial board warns: more compelling than the values argument is MPs’ concern that the UK is getting “locked in” to small nr of mostly US suppliers that may seek to embed themselves and crank up prices even as Trump’s US has become a less reliable partner ↘️ giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
