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# France and Germany launch joint digital sovereignty forum at VivaTech
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2026-06-17-france-germany-digital-sovereignty-forum/
- Published: 2026-06-17T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-23T12:00:35.000Z
- Description: At VivaTech, French minister Anne Le Hénanff and German minister Karsten Wildberger unveiled a joint position paper defining digital sovereignty and launched the Forum franco-allemand pour le futur to catalogue sovereign digital solutions and dependencies.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Policy and law, #news, #verified, #editor-read

Verified Editor-read [Ministère de l'Économie press release, 17 June 2026](https://presse.economie.gouv.fr/vers-une-europe-numerique-souveraine-la-france-et-lallemagne-passent-a-laction/?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** Does not commit funding or name which sovereign products the two governments will jointly buy or build.

**How this item counts.** No movement: no answer to who owns, who operates, whose law governs or who made the parts changes. Weight 0\. Forum launched, no funding or named sovereign products committed, two member states. [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 2026-09-23\. [How the record is made](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/method/#how-the-record-is-made)