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A week of announcements — from Google’s bet on fusion energy to Apple’s alliance with SpaceX, OpenAI’s Atlas, and the humanoid robot Neo — reveals more than just technological progress. It signals the dawn of a new era defined by autonomy: in energy, connectivity, intelligence and action. For Luxembourg, the question is not whether to join this race, but how to lead it.
Strategic autonomy has become Brussels’ favorite phrase, filling policy documents and conference presentations. But for engineers, the question isn’t whether Europe needs strategic autonomy—it’s how to build it. With €260 billion flowing annually to foreign cloud providers and half of Europe’s arms imports coming from the U.S., the engineering challenge is clear: Europe must move from designing world-class systems to manufacturing them at scale. Strategic autonomy won’t be achieved through policy papers—it will be built through engineering, manufacturing, and industrial capabilities that support European independence.