LIs a European digital sovereignty for sale? On March 13, a new Scandal broke out: Huawei, a Chinese Tech multinational, is accused of corruption in the European Parliament. This case is not an isolated case and raises a crucial question: what is the price of European sovereignty?
This “huaweigate” is the symptom of a deep and systemic evil. Like “Qatargate”, he confronts us with a disturbing truth: European institutions are infiltrated, not only by economic interests linked to lobbies with well -known practices, but also by foreign powers which directly threaten our sovereignty.
If these accusations are confirmed, this company will be necessary to sanction hardly, that is to say prohibit it from access to the European market for an indefinite period. But we will also have to question a system where external influence is no longer a cyclical accident, but a systemic strategy that weakens our freedoms, our autonomy and, in the end, our fundamental values.
High treason
Because the threat is not only economic: it is geopolitical and democratic. Huawei, with its 5G infrastructure that the European Commission wanted to deploy for forced march, is now at the heart of our digital economy and therefore our security. Through these networks transit our data and information, which we can no longer guarantee integrity.
Europe has chosen to depend on these technologies, and this dependence makes us vulnerable. What is our autonomy worth if the infrastructure, data centers and the processing means of our data are controlled by foreign giants, moved by their own interests and not by those of European citizens? And what happens if the economic interests of these actors are incompatible with the maintenance of our democracies in the European Union (EU)?
The fact that certain political groups – and certain parties – are at the service of foreign multinationals, especially digital, is not only of economic corruption, but high treason. This scandal broke out as the EU is already going through a crisis of legitimacy after “Qatargate”. But the grip of foreign powers on influential European political decision -makers is not new.
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Source: Lemonde