28 Apr
Slovakia builds its nuclear future on an American reactor and French fuelSlovakia is diversifying its nuclear fuel and technology toward Western partners. The fuel is to come from France and the new reactor from the USA. However, it remains unclear who will build the waste repository. Read more |
Slovakia is diversifying its nuclear fuel and technology toward Western partners. The fuel is to come from France and the new reactor from the USA. However, it remains unclear who will build the waste repository.
Poland’s digital infrastructure is deeply intertwined with technologies developed by American corporations. While this reliance has enabled rapid modernisation, experts warn it also creates structural vulnerabilities for public administration, data governance, and long-term technological sovereignty.
Open any government laptop in Prague, Budapest, Bratislava, or Warsaw and the chances are overwhelming that it runs Windows, logs into Microsoft 365, and stores its files in an American cloud. This is not an accident of history but the result of decades of procurement decisions, institutional inertia, and the sheer dominance of Silicon Valley.
Not only Hungary but all of Europe depends on American information technology, and this dependence has only deepened with the rise of artificial intelligence and cloud-based services. Although the European Union recognised the problem long ago, eliminating this reliance across the continent, as well as within the Hungarian government, public administration, and business sector, could take decades.