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BUILDING A STRONGER TECH EUROPE IN LIGHT OF RECENT US TARIFFS


In light of the US tariffs disruption and its potential impact on the European tech scene, Andrew Radcliffe, UK CEO and co-founder of Spyrosoft, has been advising clients on how they can build resilience in the UK and Europe and foster a robust European technology ecosystem by embracing the situation and becoming more in control of their digital future.


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t’s a given that the current geopolitical and economic conditions are turbulent.


However, this could also be a timely opportunity for Europe’s tech startups and scaleups to embrace a brighter future by focusing on building their own digital sovereignty and unleashing growth. Te uncertainty caused by


recent global events is a signpost and a nudge that Europe needs to ‘take back control’ and be the master of its own business interests. Investing in local infrastructure and platforms means more jobs, more development, and less exposure to supply chain bottlenecks. Geopolitical tensions have accelerated this thinking.


20 | May/June 2025 European innovations have


transformed the world, but we now face formidable challenges in the digital era. Te United States leads in the number of tech unicorns, followed by China and the United Kingdom. As of 2024, the US had 618 unicorns, China had 173, the UK had 50 and Europe as a whole had 159 unicorns as of March 2025. Tis year’s appointment of


Margrethe Vestager, the EU’s first Executive Vice President for Tech Sovereignty, may go some way to making the vision of tech sovereignty


a reality. However, with Europe having introduced some of the strictest digital protection laws, compliance, and controls in the world, vendors and public sector contractors can expect tighter


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