As a European association of organizations and European digital industrialists, the OIP recalls that digital sovereignty cannot be built by importing technologies and services that make our economy and our administration abnormally dependent on extra-European actors. The OIP also recalls that even if it is important, the sole respect of European values ​​by American or Asian companies cannot in any case constitute a criterion of sovereignty. Finally, it recalls that the abuses of dominant position to which these non-European companies are accustomed, which are sanctioned far too lightly and belatedly, largely explain the apparent lack of European players able to compete in international competition.

The OIP therefore calls on the Council of the European Union and its presidency to develop a more ambitious, more European and active vision of the construction of true digital sovereignty, and to build it with Europeans rather than against them. She hopes that the final program of this seminar will reflect this.