Europe-Taiwan forum urges cooperation on AI and drones

European experts called for closer Europe-Taiwan cooperation on AI and drones at a Taipei forum. The article is a report on remarks made at the Trusted Technology Forum for Democracies; it does not announce a new deal, but summarizes calls for deeper bilateral collaboration.

• John Hemmings of the Henry Jackson Society urged Europe and Taiwan to build a red-free supply chain model for drones, create a list of certified suppliers, and establish a policy-oriented drone supply chain office to draft reciprocal testing and evaluation protocols.
• Antonio Calcara of Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) said Europe should pair its industrial engineering and R&D strengths with Taiwan’s advanced semiconductors and servers for AI, and identified photonics as a promising area for specialization; Rihards Kols said the European Parliament has called for better market access, greater certainty for investors, and closer cooperation on critical technologies.