‘There’s a lot of misunderstanding’ on freedom of speech: EU tech sovereignty commissioner

Our guest’s job did not exist until the current European Commission was formed. Now the college has a portfolio for “tech sovereignty, security and democracy” held by the Finnish Commissioner, Henna Virkkunen. We ask her what tech sovereignty means and how to boost it, amid an increasingly fraught tech relationship between the EU and the US administration of President Donald Trump. We also talk about the EU’s overall strategy to increase innovation, research and the use of artificial intelligence.