Launching the Eurostack, the time is now!

Book launch and discussion of The Eurostack by Francesca Bria, a radical call for European technological independence, in the name of democracy and social goods.

Europe is losing its grip on the future — or more precisely, on the means of the future. Caught between competing scenarios of global transformation driven by the United States and China, it has so far failed to develop a bold, radical strategy for its own technological and digital development.

Francesca Bria — co-founder of the EuroStack Initiative and lead author of the EuroStack Report — calls for an ambitious, integrated strategy to build Europe’s digital infrastructure: the industrial, communications, and resource backbone without which sovereignty remains an empty word. From securing critical materials to retaining top scientists, from chip fabrication to energy supply, Europe will have no say in the future unless it reclaims sovereignty over what has become our dominant ecology of thought and action: the Stack.

Guest Speakers:

• Nicollo Milanese, Scientific Director, Berggruen Institute Europe
• Francesca Bria, Senior Fellow, Stiftung Mercator
• Alexandra Geese, Member of EU Parliament
• Thomas Jarzombek, Parlamentarischer Staatssekretä, Bundesminister für Digitales und Staatsmodernisierung (BMDS)
• Matthias Ecke, Abgeordneter, Europäisches Parlament – Abgeordnetenseite