EU Commission in a hurry on super-computing quantum strategy 

Published on 27/05/2025 - 14:32 GMT+2

The European Commission is readying to coming a strategy connected quantum earlier than expected successful June this twelvemonth successful a bid to boost uptake of nan exertion considered tin of starring to breakthroughs successful medicines and finance. 

The Commission began consulting on a scheme early past period and primitively intended to motorboat nan strategy successful nan 3rd 4th of nan year.

The connection will purpose to reenforce Europe’s tech sovereignty and economical information successful quantum technologies, including computing and communication. It is expected to telephone for personnel authorities practice to afloat instrumentality nan European Declaration connected Quantum Technologies, which was signed last spring. 

It will besides telephone for alignment of awesome investigation and improvement programmes and excavation resources to debar fragmentation and duplication, and collectively build pan-European quantum infrastructures, specified arsenic for quantum spot manufacturing and specialised platforms for computing and guarantee a unchangeable proviso of captious components.

“The EU is beardown successful early-stage investigation but often struggles pinch scaling up, commercialisation and world outreach,” nan Commission said erstwhile garnering feedback.

In addition, it said that nan EU lacks business capacity successful cardinal areas, specified arsenic nan accumulation of quantum processors and different hardware components.

“This technological dependence raises sovereignty concerns, peculiarly regarding proviso concatenation vulnerabilities. Without a robust business base, nan EU risks remaining limited connected non-EU providers for captious components.”

Hearing

In her confirmation hearing, nan EU’s Tech Commissioner, Henna Virkkunen, pledged to present a caller strategy to boost nan technology. Her ngo letter, drafted by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, said that nan EU should intensify efforts and finance “concerning nan adjacent activity of 'frontier technologies’, including quantum computing.”

The Draghi study connected competitiveness, which came retired precocious past year, besides said that quantum computing will person a foundational domiciled successful next-generation integer frameworks, pinch awesome economical and information implications.

It could lend up to €850 cardinal to nan EU system successful nan adjacent 15-30 years, his study claimed.