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Virkkunen warns foreign AI dependence risks becoming political leverage

Commission executive vice-president Henna Virkkunen told the Financial Times foreign control of frontier AI could be weaponised, citing Washington's June 2026 export curbs on Anthropic's models, and said Europe must cut risky dependencies while keeping markets open.

Reported Opinion Editor-read EU Today, 21 July 2026

What the source does not establish. The interview commits no funding, adopts no rule and reduces no dependence by itself.

Index score. No movement: no answer to who owns, who operates, whose law governs or who made the parts changes. Weight 0. none moves; a stated position on EU-wide AI dependence, not an institutional act. 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 2026-09-24. How the record is made

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