{"id":1013815,"date":"2026-06-11T12:00:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T06:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1013815"},"modified":"2026-06-11T12:00:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T06:30:58","slug":"ceo-of-europes-biggest-tech-company-asml-bluntly-tells-eu-why-should-you-even-intervene-when-you-dont-even-have-your-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/11\/ceo-of-europes-biggest-tech-company-asml-bluntly-tells-eu-why-should-you-even-intervene-when-you-dont-even-have-your-own\/","title":{"rendered":"CEO of Europe\u2019s biggest tech company ASML bluntly tells EU: Why should you even intervene, when you don&#8217;t even have your own"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CEO of Europe\u2019s most valuable tech company, ASML, has delivered a blunt reality check to European Union (EU) policymakers. Christophe Fouquet, the chief executive of Dutch chip equipment giant ASML, questioned the EU\u2019s aggressive stance on technology independence, warning Brussels against interfering in global semiconductor supply chains when the continent lacks the infrastructure to back it up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you don\u2019t have your own supply chain, then how do you intervene [in the supply chain]?\u201d Fouquet told the Financial Times, adding, \u201cPeople say: \u2018let\u2019s buy European first.\u2019 I think it\u2019s great, but you have got to have something to buy from.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CEO of Europe\u2019s most valuable tech company, ASML, has delivered a blunt reality check to European Union (EU) policymakers. Christophe Fouquet, the chief executive of Dutch chip equipment giant ASML, questioned the EU\u2019s aggressive stance on technology independence, warning Brussels against interfering in global semiconductor supply chains when the continent lacks the infrastructure to back it up. \u201cIf you don\u2019t have your own supply chain, then how do you intervene [in the supply chain]?\u201d Fouquet told the Financial Times, adding, \u201cPeople say: \u2018let\u2019s buy European first.\u2019 I think it\u2019s great, but you have got to have something to buy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013816,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013815\/revisions\/1013816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}