Sanna Marin
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Europe can’t make the identical errors within the growth of know-how because it did within the power sector, stated former Prime Minister of Finland Sanna Marin on Thursday in Poznań. In her opinion, it’s doable to create European competitiveness utilizing know-how.
– The European Union is the strongest financial system on the earth – there are such a lot of proficient folks in Europe, we’ve got a beautiful historical past (…). Nevertheless, we have to work on plenty of points. One among them, in fact, is the difficulty of upcoming applied sciences. Our societies are already so technologically superior, we’ll develop into much more digital – sooner or later every thing shall be digital. We can’t afford to lose this technological race, stated former Prime Minister of Finland Sanna Marin, talking on the Impression’24 congress in Poznań.
Former Prime Minister of Finland: we can’t afford to be depending on authoritarian nations
She admitted that it’s doable to create European competitiveness utilizing know-how. – We can’t afford to be depending on authoritarian nations after we speak about new applied sciences. China and the US are already investing enormous quantities of cash in know-how, and we’re nonetheless lagging behind. We lack giant know-how firms, we lack innovation, she added.
Sanna Marin emphasised that Europe can’t make the identical errors in know-how growth because it did within the power sector. – We have been too depending on Russian gasoline, Russian power. We have now reached a scenario the place Russia is attacking Ukraine, attacking the whole European continent, utilizing power as a weapon. We won’t afford to have this occur once more by way of know-how, she stated.
As she famous, it’s unattainable to construct, for instance, a semiconductor manufacturing facility in a yr and a brand new, crucial know-how in a month. – We should begin making ready right here and now in order to not be depending on authoritarian nations. We have to strengthen our personal innovation. We should spend money on folks, in training, in analysis and growth. It appears to me that that is completely elementary, that is the muse of European innovation and know-how, stated Sanna Marin.
