This is how the EU moves towards technological sovereignty with Merkel
Angela Merkel's plans for European technological sovereignty. The post by Gianni Bessi, regional councilor of Emilia-Romagna and author of House of Tsar in 2020. Geopolitics and energy in the time of Putin, Erdogan and Trump. (goware editions)
The question that many have asked themselves in recent months is whether we will emerge better or worse from this pandemic. From a political point of view, it seems to me that the question must be what quality will we be able to guarantee at the top of European and national institutions. Because in times of emergency you often don't have the time to choose the right captain for the ship, but when it's time to rebuild you need personalities who have a "vision".
And here it is inevitable to return to Angela Merkel, one of the few political figures in the world – it is my opinion of course – who has this vision, which I would also like to define with a term that is no longer used but which satisfies the concept: foresight. A quality that Angela Merkel has demonstrated on many occasions: one for all, when she was able to involve Christian Democrats, Social Democrats, Liberals and environmentalists in the management of public affairs, maneuvering the relationship between the Federal State and Lander with the same ability. And also mixing with balance the “grunds” of the German economic strength, the great industrial Junker to the powerful Mittelstand (the medium enterprise) up to the trade unions protagonists of Mitbestimmung, that is of the co-management in German corporate governance.
All in a balanced syncretism that has already delivered it to history… in continuity with the great fathers of the homeland of post-war Germany from Konrad Adenauer to Willy Brandt up to his mentor Helmut Kohl. Das Madchen (the girl), as Kohl called her, takes the title of Mutter (mother) of Germany by right after four terms.
Another piece of his acceptance in the Olympus of statesmen is his recent proposal goes precisely in the direction of taking power away from those who have accumulated so much in recent years: the need for the European Union to reach technological sovereignty.
In reality, the translation from English sovereignty is better rendered by Italian independence, because it is not only a question of control of technology, which lies precisely in sovereignty, but also in autonomy from technological powers such as the USA and China.
In short, a European way to technology. Once again Frau Angela has demonstrated her vocation by recalling the importance of research, development and change in the paradigm of industrial society and services, to which the energy and economic resources of the EU, of the national plans, must be directed. Are we sure we need less Europe led by Merkel?
The Chancellor's reasoning is clear: we support that type of technological development if we develop a European technology and service engineering chain, or in any case one that operates in Europe.
The real revolution, the next revolution or rather the revolution we are experiencing is not the "digital" one (or rather not only if it is taken individually), but the technological one and therefore the progress of knowledge: it is the transformation of the mode of production and its efficiency.
Peter Thiel summarized the concept very well: progress can have two directions, horizontal and vertical. The horizontal one is globalization and is resolved in the transfer of technology and is a process from 1 to 0. The vertical one occurs when novelties are produced, something that no one had ever imagined and produced before, that is from 0 to 1. And the latter which makes a technological leap. For example, if you start from a typewriter and then produce another hundred it is horizontal progress, if instead you start from a typewriter and build a word processor it is vertical progress.
Merkel's challenge lies right here. We have to choose between horizontal or vertical progress. Certainly the Germans, but not only, have a clear idea of the extent of the challenge.
And U.S? Some doubts are legitimate.
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This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/ecco-come-con-angela-merkel-lue-va-verso-la-sovranita-tecnologica/ on Sat, 26 Dec 2020 06:39:33 +0000.