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France and Germany launch joint digital sovereignty forum at VivaTech

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.

Verified Editor-read Ministère de l'Économie press release, 17 June 2026

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

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

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