https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_25_2053
From the perspective of research and innovation, the Ms von der Leyen addressed the following issues:
- entering into a “Drone Alliance” with Ukraine
- massive investments in digital and clean tech, mentioning amongst others the European Competitiveness Fund and “a doubled Horizon Europe”, as well as the AI Gigafactories (the President is meeting the CEOs of the largest European tech champtions and will be handed over the European AI & Tech Declaration), as well as a Battery Booster package and the Industrial Accelerator Act;
- simplification continues to be a core objective (“We need to make business in Europe easier”);
- private investment and the Scale-up Europe Fund;
- the “Choose Europe” package with € 500 million („Science has no passport, gender, ethnicity or political colour. It is one of the most valuable global goods.”);
- a new Global Health Resilience Initiative.
- a “European Centre for Democratic Resilience”
- renewable energies including nuclear energies (“We need to generate more homegrown renewables – with nuclear as a baseload”).