The Latest: France and Germany have presented a project of European secure datainfrastructure, focusing on cloud.Implications: The partnership shows that European countries are serious about creating acompelling tech ecosystem, and not simply serve as the de facto global tech regulator. Inour view, this fits with the ambitions of the future European Commission, where the techportfolio will be split between Vice President Margrethe Vestager, still in charge of enforcingcompetition rules, and the future French Commissioner, now likely to be former FinanceMinister Thierry Breton, whose role will focus on finally implementing the Digital SingleMarket. France has been at the forefront in trying to make Europe a key tech player, with itsplans for fairer digital taxation, and its recent multi-billion euro investment into start-ups.
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