The @EUCommission has already announced that it wants to reform public procurement rules. The two first goals are pretty uncontroversial: Make buying stuff more efficient and allow more start-ups and innovative companies in.

The potential hang-up is goal number three: Give preference to […]

The people behind this idea are, as Cristina Caffara likes to point out, a motley group of volunteers. We also have Vittorio Bertola, Francesco Bonfiglio, Sebastiano Toffaletti, Kai Zenner, Alexandra Geese and many more. @protonprivacy's @andyyen Andy Yen also told me he approved of the project.

Importantly: Don’t just innovate but build something. The group is not calling for more research money, but for European companies to grab market share from overseas incumbents.

As centrepiece of this strategy, they see public procurement. Europe’s governments should be forced to buy a certain […]

The basic pitch: Europe has been good at regulating, but not at building. We’ve become a digital colony of the US and China. Time is running out.

But time is running out for what? For a clear industrial policy, unified for EU and member states. Build capacities for the whole digital value […]