The EU Commission President wants to reduce Europe’s economic dependence on China.
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Brussels, Berlin It was a matter of overcoming a precarious dependency and strengthening Europe’s sovereignty, even then. The “Plan Calcul”, put into effect by French President Charles de Gaulle in 1966, was intended to help build a local computer industry and break the dominance of US companies such as IBM. The initiative cost hundreds of millions of francs and was discontinued in 1974. The “Plan Calcul” was a failure.
Now the Europeans want to try again, with a plan whose ambitions put all previous industrial policy programs in the shade. It’s not just about computers, but about promising products of all kinds: microchips, batteries, heat pumps, wind turbines and solar cells.
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