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# Virkkunen tells Davos Europe's tech dependence can be weaponised
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2026-01-22-virkkunen-davos-tech-dependence/
- Published: 2026-01-22T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-18T13:56:46.000Z
- Description: At Davos, Commission Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen said Europe's low start-up to scale-up rate, 8 percent against 60 percent in the US, feeds dependence on foreign technology, and argued sovereignty needs one market, not 27 rulebooks.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Policy and law, #news, #reported, #opinion, #editor-read

Reported Opinion Editor-read [diginomica, 23 January 2026](https://diginomica.com/davos-2026-end-week-when-tech-sovereignty-europe-was-all-too-point-issue?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** Does not commit any EU funding or rule change, only Virkkunen's own reading of the dependency problem.

**How this item counts.** No movement: no answer to who owns, who operates, whose law governs or who made the parts changes. Weight 0\. Opinion: a Commissioner's reading of Europe's scale-up gap and tech dependence. [European Sovereignty Index](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/sovereignty-index/)

**How this item was made.** Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above; read and approved by the editor on 2026-09-17\. [How the record is made](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/method/#how-the-record-is-made)