”Euroopan Unionin on tavoiteltava teknologista itsemääräämisoikeutta asettamalla rohkeasti eurooppalaiset teknologiavaihtoehdot ja yritykset etusijalle.”
Keskityn politiikassani vahvistamaan Euroopan unionin taloutta, kilpailukykyä ja tuottavuutta, jotta voimme varmistaa eurooppalaisten hyvinvointiyhteiskuntien tulevaisuuden, kehittää keinoja taistelussa ilmastokriisiä vastaan sekä vahvistaa Euroopan valtapoliittista asemaa, teknologista itsemääräämisoikeutta ja kokonaisturvallisuutta.
Euroopan unionin arvopohja rakentuu oikeusvaltioperiaatteelle sekä demokratian, sanan- ja yksilönvapauden noudattamiselle. Mahdollisimman vapaa markkina ja tuottava talous ovat välineitä toteuttaa mahdollisuuksien tasa-arvoa, vahvistaa koulutusta ja osaamista, taata kasvavien yritysten ja hyvinvoivien kansalaisten arki sekä osaajien riittäminen Euroopan unionissa nyt ja tulevaisuudessa.
Teen politiikkaa niillä toimialoilla, joissa Euroopan uniolla on toimivaltaa ja keskityn tällä hetkellä erityisesti teknologisen itsemääräämisoikeuden vahvistamiseen. Eurooppalainen teknologia on sekä turvallisuus-, talous- että kilpailupoliittinen valinta, jolla vahvistetaan Euroopan asemaa maailman valtapolitiikassa.
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I participated in the Munich Security Conference’s Technology Security Roundtable Brussels 2026, under the theme “From Tech-Taker to Tech-Maker: Sovereignty and Partnerships in a Weaponized World.” 🌍
I highlighted three key priorities for Europe:
🇺🇦 1. Stand firmly with Ukraine and end dangerous technological dependencies.
We must continue our unwavering support for Ukraine. Europe needs to do more to finance and deliver the military capabilities Ukraine urgently needs, including ballistic missile capabilities. We must also seriously consider measures to strengthen Ukraine’s air defence, including options to close its airspace, and urgently find a solution to mobilise frozen Russian assets held in Belgium to finance Ukraine’s defence and reconstruction.
🛰️ The Starlink restrictions in Ukraine have once again demonstrated what a technological kill switch can mean in practice. Lives and military operations can depend on decisions made by foreign technology providers. Europe simply cannot afford this level of strategic dependency.
🇪🇺 2. Stop only talking about European technological sovereignty and start choosing European technology.
European public money must be used strategically to strengthen European technology companies and create demand for European solutions, while access to capital must enable our companies to grow without having to move elsewhere.
🛠️ 3. Strengthen Europe’s position across the semiconductor value chain.
We rely heavily on Asia, particularly Taiwan and South Korea, for advanced semiconductor manufacturing, while also depending on external suppliers for mature chips, packaging, assembly, critical materials and manufacturing equipment. Europe has important strengths in semiconductor equipment, research, materials and industrial applications. Creating demand for European technologies is critically important, and developing critical technological know-how in Europe must be central to our strategy.
#ukraine #msc #techsovereignty #semiconductor
📸: MSC/Kuhlmann
Europe must stop regulating its own digital industry out of the market. Enough is enough.📌
The European Commission has just published its proposal for the #DigitalFairnessAct. Protecting consumers from manipulative practices and unfair business models is important. But does Europe really need another digital regulation?
👉 #Gaming is one of Europe’s most important creative and digital industries. Europe must protect young players and consumers, but we must also protect Europe’s gaming industry.
While transparency, parental control and protection against genuinely manipulative practices are important, the proposed rules risk going far beyond consumer protection and interfering directly with game design, monetisation models and innovation.
❗️The European video game industry is still globally competitive, and we must ensure it stays that way. We should be particularly careful about broad restrictions on in-game virtual currencies, loot boxes and progression mechanics, as well as vague definitions of addictive or excessive design. Not every reward mechanism is manipulative, not every in-game purchase is harmful, and not every engaging gaming experience is addictive.
For Finland, this is particularly important. Mobile game development is a major industry, and the free-to-play business model should remain viable in the future.
We already have one of the world’s most extensive digital regulatory jungles. Our priority should be to simplify, streamline and properly enforce the legislation we already have, not keep adding new layers of regulation, legal uncertainty and administrative burdens. Europe cannot claim to want #technologicalsovereignty while making it increasingly difficult for our own companies to innovate, invest and scale. 🇪🇺
‼️ We must stop facilitating data centres in Europe for American and Chinese companies. We must reserve our electricity and natural resources for our own companies. And we must start choosing European cloud, as quickly and as widely as possible.
☝️ There is no question: we need data centres. Data centres are infrastructure for Europe’s AI development and technological sovereignty. But we need to make sure we enable them for European users with clear rules.
#datacenters #techsovereignty #AI
We are literally losing lives because we are using US technology. ‼️
Starlink in Ukraine once again showed us what a kill switch means in practice. Europe simply can no longer afford this kind of dependency.
🇪🇺 European alternatives already exist, and now we need to start choosing them. European public money should go towards European technology companies, helping them innovate, grow and scale in Europe without having to move elsewhere to find the investment they need.
This is not just about reducing our dependency on foreign technology, but also about creating greater opportunities for European companies to become global leaders.
👉 What we need now is the political will to make this happen. We need to turn our words into concrete decisions and use our purchasing power to create demand for European technology.
#Starlink #killswitch #techsovereignty
Europe’s technological sovereignty: my four steps from words to action. 🇪🇺
Europe has the talent, research capabilities and industrial capacity to become a global technology leader, but ambition alone is not enough. We need to create the conditions for European companies to innovate, scale and compete globally. The EU’s focus should not be on infrastructure and public financing. We need to enable greater use of data, accelerate private capital and harmonise the Single Market with concrete and significant action.
I see four key priorities:
🏛️ 1. Strategic public procurement. Use Europe’s purchasing power to create demand for innovation, scale and strengthen our companies and reduce strategic and even dangerous dependencies.
💶 2. Real capital markets. Channel European pension funds into crossborder investments within Europe. We need harmonized insolvency laws, compatible and more aligned corporate taxation.
Our start-ups and scale-ups need access to long-term private risk capital to grow and become global leaders without having to look outside Europe!
⚙️ 3. Less regulatory burden and enabling greater use of data usage for EU companies. Simplify and reduce overlapping rules and remove unnecessary barriers. We need a stable regulatory environment that accelerates innovation and encourages us to take more risks rather than one that slows them down.
🔗4. Finally, a truly harmonised Single Market that moves beyond 27 fragmented national markets. Remove national barriers and make it easier for companies to operate and scale up across Europe.
Technological sovereignty is not about closing Europe off from the world or producing everything ourselves. It is about having the capabilities, companies and infrastructure to make our own choices and protect our interests.
Less fragmentation. More investment. Smarter regulation. One stronger European market. It is time to move from words to action. 💪
#techsovereignty #capitalmarketunion #singlemarket
As the lead rapporteur for the simplification of EU digital legislation – the #DigitalOmnibus – in the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE), I am very pleased with the commitment and hard work, particularly on the #DataAct, that we have achieved so far.
🔹 We have received more than 1,000 amendments, and finding a balanced compromise is no easy task. One thing is clear: we will not agree on anything until everything is agreed, as this is a joint effort between two parliamentary committees under Rule 59.
🔹 The Parliament’s work is also separate from that of the Council. Our aim is to finalise the Parliament’s position by February, allowing negotiations between the co-legislators to begin. However, we are prepared to take the time needed to get this right. The Parliament’s impact assessment is expected later this month.
🔹 To put it simply, our objectives are to simplify procedures for European businesses, help tackle Europeans’ growing cookie fatigue, and enable greater use of data by European companies. Ultimately, we need to create the conditions for European businesses to innovate, grow and strengthen Europe’s technological sovereignty.
The work continues! 💪
🔹 Today and tomorrow, I will be discussing these issues once again at two interesting events: Protection vs. Innovation: Balancing European Digital Policy today, and tomorrow at a panel at POLITICO Pulse’s Tech session, which you can also follow online. Link in my story.
EU-viikon kuumimmat puheenaiheet. MEP Aura Salla on EU-politiikkaan erikoistunut valtiotieteiden tohtori. Podcastissa pureudutaan EU-viikon polttaviin puheenaiheisiin rennolla ja kansantajuisella otteella. Mielipiteet edustavat ainoastaan henkilökohtaista ajattelua.
