“We export public money and import long-term dependency.” - This was one of my key messages in my policy keynote at the OpenForum Europe EU Open Source Policy Summit 2026 last Friday in Brussels. Besides addressing why dependencies threaten our governmental action and what state sovereignty means today, I focused particularly on the economic aspect of Open Source. #OpenSource is a #key #driver of #economic #growth. An opportunity that we in Europe should seize.

@EUCommission
If you want to keep moving in the right direction, please do not turn the ongoing #simplification into #deregulation. This would be dismantling #environmental safeguards established over decades through democratic processes and grounded in clear scientific evidence, which underpin the #EU’s legal obligation to ensure a high level of #nature protection.

As you mention yourself, #climate action and economic #growth can go hand-in-hand.