let's be real, which other power should eu align with? without being a protectorate, we'd already be half back under the iron courtain.

If the EU wants to be able to not have to rely on US data they need to have a substantially more business friendly environment for nascent EU startups and heavily subsidize them. Right now the European software market is tiny and almost entirely legacy software.

The EU is business friendly, they just happen to have an "ally" who engage with anti-competitive practices and funds massive amount of lobbying

You don’t think the EU has a self-interest in trading with the biggest economy in the world?

Do you think that I, as a European, want to be cut off from using ChatGPT or Google Docs?

Why not, the tech isn’t all that impressive, just needs a lot of time and money, something that will never happen before google docs are cut off.

ok

No, the EU has interest protecting its users and industry

The US is a failing economy with half of the world starting to detach from the USD

The US already starting to tinker with Copyright laws in order to boost and be leader in AI.. this is a red flag

This is another attempt for the US to save its economy

EU should do like the US and Asia, protect its industry

what pants it only had a skirt with GDPR branded on it and nothing under...

The US isn't the "funder of the EU", but it does have all the tech whereas Europe has very very very little. It's hugely lopsided in terms of (in particular) software expertise and successful software companies west and east of the Atlantic.

> US is basically the funder of the EU

You mean "funder" as in financial funding? If so, how exactly?

This is why it is important to not skip History class, "Reading the Past, Understanding the Present"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan

They funded and founded the EU, it was their idea, to merge economies and to open up borders to trade their goods push their influence further East

And it was their ideas to break big monopolies so their industry could be more competitive over there

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Coal_and_Steel_Commun...

And now, it is their idea to allow data transfers and tinker with copyrights law so they can further help their AI industry

I'm aware of the Marshall plan. Parent's comment could have been read as "continues to fund the EU" which I don't think is a thing other than the usual, trade, etc.

Thanks for sharing the link to the ECSC, it's been a while since I read about that. I wouldn't say though that the US founded the EU (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union), at least not in the literal sense of the word.