Strategic 🇪🇺🇯🇵 partnership
Intense discussions in Tokyo to assert Europe’s geopolitical stance:
✔️Economic security
✔️Semiconductors resilience & raw materials components
✔️Arctic connectivity & undersea cables
✔️AI regulation
Interview to 🇯🇵 NHK ⤵️
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/videos/20230703205122159/
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ThierryBreton/status/1676386920908087296
Chips are vital for our economic security.
EU & Japan to boost #resilience of the #Chips supply chain, including an “early warning” mechanism to prevent any disruptions — notably in critical raw materials components.
Glad to sign 🇪🇺🇯🇵 memorandum with #METI Minister Nishimura. https://t.co/QMmhroBlDe
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ThierryBreton/status/1676166693251366912
Honoured to be invited by @ProfKlausSchwab to speak at the World Economic Forum gathering in Tokyo 🇯🇵
As like-minded partners, Europe and Japan are strengthening their #cooperation for an enhanced #EconomicSecurity on the global scene together. https://n.respublicae.eu/i/web/status/1676187101891534849 https://t.co/Jq6qPjlfSg
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ThierryBreton/status/1676187101891534849
Like Europe, Japan has great ambitions in producing next-gen #semiconductors
Chips below 2 nanometers will be strategic for #AI, low-energy consumption technology and #industry of the future.
Good meeting with #Rapidus, new 🇯🇵venture foundry aiming at <2nm nodes.
#EUChipsAct https://t.co/MvUUGNBYFj
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ThierryBreton/status/1676099917608284161
7 companies have notified the 🇪🇺 Commission that they meet the #Gatekeepers thresholds under the Digital Markets Act (#DMA):
Alphabet
Amazon
Apple
ByteDance
Meta
Microsoft
Samsung
🔜 Following our review process, official designation will be announced no later than 6 September https://t.co/1qr5Scly0S
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ThierryBreton/status/1676111183282323456
Every continent today is expanding manufacturing capacities in #semiconductors.
#Skills have become a global challenge.
#Cooperation is key — through research & student programmes.
Kicking off today in Tokyo the 1st international event dedicated to Chips & Skills 🇪🇺🇯🇵 https://t.co/JRdGNUe6X6
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ThierryBreton/status/1675888637316304896
Important 1st 🇯🇵🇪🇺 #DigitalPartnership Council in Tokyo
Strengthening our #EconomicSecurity through enhanced cooperation on:
✔️Research & supply chain resilience for #Chips
✔️#Investment environment for tech (connectivity, 5G/6G, quantum, HPC, cyber)
✔️Regulation on #AI https://n.respublicae.eu/i/web/status/1675786583256055808 https://t.co/BnACBuvXtA
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ThierryBreton/status/1675786583256055808
Generative #AI — integrating large language models into search engines —requires a massive amount of #ComputingPower
Both High Performance Computers (HPC) and #chips are essential — and 🇪🇺 is the ideal place to invest in!
Good visit at #Fujitsu with CEO Takahito Tokita https://t.co/urZ8jynfgx
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ThierryBreton/status/1675804499955384325
Connecting Europe to Japan via an #UnderSeaCable of 14,000 km is an important geopolitical move for:
✔️Chokepoints diversification (bypassing Russia & Canal of Suez)
✔️Latency reduction
✔️Enhanced Cybersecurity
🇪🇺🇯🇵 MoU signing w/ Min. Matsumoto in Tokyo today
#Connectivity https://t.co/HdncCD2nBA
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ThierryBreton/status/1675736638129938432
Konnichiwa! 🎌
I am very glad to be back in Tokyo as part of my #G20DigitalTour
In 1984, I came here to test the very first #AI application in the world with Pr. Kazuhiro Fuchi
And now, AI will be high on the agenda together with 🇯🇵 government on #connectivity, #HPC & #quantum https://t.co/nvENvmDQ8o
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ThierryBreton/status/1675387787955060736
RT Swedish Presidency of the Council of the EU
319 decisions and agreements on EU laws and other texts under the Swedish Presidency. See the list: https://swedish-presidency.consilium.europa.eu/media/j0iibp5w/scoreboard.pdf https://t.co/ko8seQEaoR
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/sweden2023eu/status/1674875278001074176
Informative exchange w/ Jae IL Son, CEO of Hanwha, leading Korean defence equipment manufacturer 🇰🇷
🇪🇺 is ramping up its defence industry to adapt to the new security realities
Important to explore powder & explosive supply chain diversification to enhance EU security of supply https://t.co/PW1E9TppZp
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ThierryBreton/status/1674713851089092608
Re On all these topics — and given the geopolitical environment — it is essential we move fast 🇰🇷🇪🇺
As like-minded partners, we will strengthen our #economicsecurity with our #digital cooperation.
I look forward to welcoming our 🇰🇷 digital partners soon in Brussels! https://t.co/jN3BwWlrcx
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ThierryBreton/status/1674654209659277314
Cyberthreats know no borders.
In a globalised and interconnected world, #cyber attacks can spread easily.
We should explore the opening of a new phase in our 🇰🇷🇪🇺 cooperation and launch a dedicated EU-Korea cyber #dialogue. https://t.co/nTcUvUvEP0
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ThierryBreton/status/1674662742538461185
Very good meeting in Seoul with 🇰🇷 Minister for Trade, Industry & Energy, Duk-Geun Ahn
The new geopolitics of tech & supply chains calls for enhanced #cooperation between the EU and Korea.
Together, we are reinforcing our ties to ensure #EconomicSecurity
@MOTIEKoreaEng https://t.co/g3TCkjwQRa
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ThierryBreton/status/1674374564716113923
Glad to be back in Seoul 🇰🇷 as part of my #G20DigitalTour
#AI, 5G, 6G, edge computing, semiconductors, #quantum…
Both Europe and Korea are tech front runners.
And we believe in organizing our digital space — to protect our citizens, preserve freedom & foster innovation. https://t.co/LpN0Y6rco0
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ThierryBreton/status/1674293221097189378
Last night in Brussels, while most of the town was asleep, a #deal has been reached on the #eID wallet! ✅
It will empower 🇪🇺 citizens by giving them control over their #data
— and it will strengthen our EU technological #sovereignty https://t.co/PDynAbbySP
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ThierryBreton/status/1674308602511732736
Yes, Europe’s image has changed — positively ✌️— over the past few years.
One of the main reasons is : our #SingleMarket 🇪🇺
It has become a geopolitical tool — able to attract investors & startups.
Good exchange in Seoul 🇰🇷 with EU Chamber of Commerce in Korea. https://t.co/hWS3ZOHO7y
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ThierryBreton/status/1674319703064424448
Europe is the number one #tourism destination of the world.
We are generating the largest amount of #data, which represent huge opportunities for #AI startups.
Europe is the ideal place for them to develop AI apps! 🇪🇺
#DataSpace
https://www.euronews.com/2023/06/28/europe-a-fantastic-place-to-invent-tourism-ai-commissioner-breton
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ThierryBreton/status/1674193009913544707
