One more reason to believe in Europe!

After the recent concerns expressed by students in France, and before turning our attention, once again, to what is happening across the Atlantic, here is some encouraging news from Europe.

Who would have thought that the owner of Lidl could become one of the architects of Europe’s AI sovereignty?

Yet this is precisely what Germany’s Schwarz Group is increasingly positioning itself to become.

Schwarz Group, through Schwarz Digits and STACKIT, is investing in AI infrastructure and enterprise technology.

Cohere, the Canadian AI specialist, is joining forces with Germany’s Aleph Alpha to develop a powerful alternative in enterprise AI, backed by Schwarz Group.

Bull, the French supercomputing specialist, has just announced a partnership with Schwarz Digits to develop sovereign European AI infrastructure.

What makes this particularly encouraging?

→ An established European retail group is transforming itself into a strategic technology player.

→ French and German industrial expertise is coming together around a concrete ambition.

→ And private industrial capital is taking the lead, rather than waiting for another public funding programme.

Of course, there is still a long road from announcements to industrial execution.

But this is the Europe I want to believe in: innovative, entrepreneurial, collaborative and capable of building its own future.

Our younger generations need more than warnings about tomorrow. They need reasons to believe in it.

Less talking about sovereignty. More building it.