{"id":259666,"date":"2026-05-30T12:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/eu-prepares-breakup-with-us-technology\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T12:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T16:15:10","slug":"eu-prepares-breakup-with-us-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/eu-prepares-breakup-with-us-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"EU prepares breakup with US technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.manilatimes.net\/2026\/05\/31\/world\/americas-emea\/eu-prepares-breakup-with-us-technology\/2355019\">EU prepares breakup with US technology<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.manilatimes.net\/2026\/05\/31\/world\/americas-emea\/eu-prepares-breakup-with-us-technology\/2355019\">https:\/\/www.manilatimes.net\/2026\/05\/31\/world\/americas-emea\/eu-prepares-breakup-with-us-technology\/2355019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-30 12:03:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.manilatimes.net\">www.manilatimes.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>BRUSSELS,<\/strong> Belgium \u2014 Wary of being vulnerable to the whims of foreign governments, the European Union is preparing far-reaching new moves to ditch American digital companies and Chinese chips in favor of European alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>The EU\u2019s technological sovereignty package is among many measures taken by Brussels to slash dependence on foreign firms and boost local manufacturing &#8212; but risks opening up a new front in transatlantic tensions.<\/p>\n<p>The hotly awaited package of new rules on chips, cloud computing and AI will be presented on Wednesday as part of the EU\u2019s effort to \u201creclaim its place in the global race for geo-economic power\u201d, a draft strategy document seen by AFP said.<\/p>\n<p>Of particular concern is how much the European Union relies on US cloud providers, which account for around 70 percent of Europe\u2019s market.<\/p>\n<p>Since President Donald Trump returned to the White House last year, Europeans worry that critical digital infrastructure could be brought to a halt by an American \u201ckill switch\u201d if tensions ever reached fever pitch.<\/p>\n<p>Get the latest news<br \/>\n                <br class=\"br-line\"\/><br \/>\n                delivered to your inbox<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for The Manila Times newsletters<\/p>\n<p>            By signing up with an email address, I acknowledge that I have read and agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.<\/p>\n<p>Top EU officials don\u2019t directly name their target as the United States, but American tech dominates, from cloud computing to social media to e-commerce.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to develop our own capacities. We cannot allow someone trying to influence our own decisions, our own values, our own well-functioning economy and services,\u201d EU competition tsar Teresa Ribera said this month.<\/p>\n<p>EU officials often point to Washington\u2019s sanctions against International Criminal Court judges &#8212; imposed by Trump in February 2025 &#8212; to illustrate the grip of US firms&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.manilatimes.net\/2026\/05\/31\/world\/americas-emea\/eu-prepares-breakup-with-us-technology\/2355019\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EU prepares breakup with US technology https:\/\/www.manilatimes.net\/2026\/05\/31\/world\/americas-emea\/eu-prepares-breakup-with-us-technology\/2355019 Publish Date: 2026-05-30 12:03:00 Source Domain: www.manilatimes.net BRUSSELS,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":259667,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdnx.premiumread.com\/?url=https:\/\/www.manilatimes.net\/theme_manilatimes\/images\/TMT_1920x1008.jpg&w=1920&q=100&f=webp&v=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259668,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259666\/revisions\/259668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}