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BERLIN : IT IS REALLY AN UPHILL BATTLE FOR ' technological sovereignty ' in Europe. And Nations are taking modest steps to reduce dependence on providers in the U.S. and China.

The French government said this year that it would replace Zoom and other American videoconferences software with a French developed alternative.

Germany is building a homegrown platform for artificial intelligence. Companies in both countries are teaming up to build A.I. chips to rival those of the United States and China.

These are modest steps in Europe's high stakes race to catch up to America and China in the global sprint for digital independence. Without it, Europe's political and business leaders worry, they will be vulnerable to sudden losses of access to critical technologies.

After President Trump's recent decision to cut off foreigner's from some of Anthropic's latest artificial intelligence models. They will also miss out on revenues from a booming industry.

Yet interviews with business leaders, public officials, entrepreneurs and economists suggest there is currently little question about whether Europe can wean itself off tech dependence anytime soon.

'' IT CANNOT.'' Instead, political and business leaders across the continent are wrestling with a more limited, but still daunting, question. If full independence is impossible, where should Europe focus its digital efforts, in pursuit of at least partial economy?

'' One hundred percent autonomy in digital services is not at this stage something that is feasible,'' said Anne Le Henanff, France's minister for artificial intelligence and digital affairs.

'' We just need to decide what we don't want to be dependent on.''

Europe's consumers and businesses rely heavily on American and Chinese imports for their digital lives, including social media, national security systems and artificial intelligence.

They store data with American companies, like Amazon, despite European concerns over the comparative laxness of data protection rules. European based multinational companies, like Mercedes-Benz, hone some of their most important new technology in Chinese labs.

Europe has one homegrown large language model, Mistral A.I., a three year old start-up that is France's national champion in artificial intelligence and is now valued at $14 billion. Mistral's three founders worked for Google and Meta before starting the company.

Technology executives acknowledge that France does not yet have a financial culture, like that of Silicon Valley, to incubate promising start-ups. In France and across much of Europe, business leaders complain that companies must move to America to scale up.

Continental leaders have begun to call their reliance dangerous, strategically and economically, as Washington and Beijing more boldly wield raw power to bond other countries to their will.

They say it leaves them more vulnerable to cyberattacks, and economic and diplomatic pressure by powerful governments that may not share Europe's democratic values.

'' We need nothing more and nothing less than technological sovereignty in Europe, and therefore also in Germany, at least wherever it is attainable,'' Friedrich Merz, the German Chancellor said last fall.

Europe's technological dependencies, he warned, were '' being exploited for power politics.''

This month, the Netherlands announced plans to create government controlled data centers to prevent sensitive information from falling into the hands of foreign companies.

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