Virkkunen tells Davos Europe's tech dependence can be weaponised

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.

Reported Opinion Editor-read diginomica, 23 January 2026

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

Index score. 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

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