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As Europe prepares for Chips Act 2.0, the semiconductor debate is shifting beyond factories and subsidies toward infrastructure, ecosystems and technological indispensability. This Perspective series explores how Europe is repositioning itself through strategic specialization, industrial depth and interconnected innovation networks.
As Chips Act 2.0 begins to reshape Europe’s semiconductor ambitions, a new doctrine is quietly emerging — one focused less on full autonomy and more on becoming structurally indispensable inside the global technology ecosystem.
As e-commerce optimized retail around speed and efficiency, physical shopping centres began transforming into something else entirely: social environments where experience, presence and urban life increasingly matter as much as consumption itself.
As e-commerce reshapes consumer behaviour, physical retail is quietly reinventing itself. Across Europe, shopping centres, libraries and mixed-use urban spaces are evolving into social infrastructure where experience, community and physical presence become valuable again in an increasingly digital society.
As Chips Act 2.0 reshapes Europe’s industrial strategy, the semiconductor debate is shifting beyond mega-fabs and subsidies toward ecosystems, infrastructure and technological indispensability. This series explores how Europe is repositioning itself inside the global technology system through cooperation, specialization and strategic interdependence.
Europe’s next network era is not being shaped by technology alone, but by very different national ideas about infrastructure, sovereignty, industry and digital power. Phase III explores how European countries approach the future of networks — and what that reveals about Europe itself.
As Europe accelerates into an age shaped by AI, platforms and geopolitical instability, a deeper question emerges beneath the technological transformation: can societies modernize without slowly eroding the human, democratic and cultural foundations that make collective life socially recognizable in the first place?
The internet is no longer merely a communication network. It has become the civic environment in which democratic reality itself is increasingly shaped. As algorithms and AI systems organize visibility, attention and interpretation, Europe faces a deeper challenge: can democratic societies still retain meaningful control over the infrastructures shaping public perception?
As digital platforms increasingly control visibility, logistics, payments and customer relationships, Europe faces a deeper economic question: can it remain globally competitive while preserving local ownership, regional resilience and democratic control over the infrastructure of everyday economic life?
Europe’s upcoming Chips Act 2.0 signals a major strategic shift in Brussels. Instead of chasing unrealistic semiconductor self-sufficiency, the European Union increasingly aims to become technologically indispensable through photonics, industrial AI, advanced equipment and critical infrastructure technologies.
