From cybersecurity to the European Gigafactory on Ai: Italia-Greece meeting to create a 'digital bridge

Objective: to create a 'digital bridge' between Italia and Greece. To do this, the Minister of Enterprise Adolfo Urso and his Greek colleague Dimitris Papastergiou, who is in charge of digital governance, have set some key points. Starting with the steps forward that, in theory, are on the way from Brussels to establish a European Gigafactory on Artificial Intelligence, to try to make up ground for Europe, which has fallen far behind in the sector.

In addition, special attention was paid to cybersecurity and the protection of submarine cables, from which 97% of global Internet traffic transits.

Let's start with the European Ai project. For Urso, "the launch could be close" perhaps as early as next month. According to Papastergiou, Europe is in 'dire need of it'. This is clearly linked to the Old Continent's disadvantage compared to the United States and China in terms of infrastructure and chips.

The bilateral, generally dedicated to 'Cooperation in the fields of digital, space and cyber security in the hybrid era', brought together several points. "We must bring our two countries to a common policy for new technologies," said Urso, "strengthening cooperation also in view of the next EU Council presidencies, the Greek one in 2025 and the Italian one in 2026, in order to determine together the European assets".

The most important point was security, at a time of 'increasing hybrid threats'. The ministers emphasised the crucial role of undersea telecommunications infrastructure in supporting European connectivity, economic security and digital sovereignty. A key point, considering the location of both countries on the Mediterranean. Thus, Greece and Italia expressed their intention to promote a coordinated framework for the surveillance and mitigation of submarine infrastructure risks.