Hybrid Emerging and Destructive Technologies with Implications on National and European Security and Sovereignty

Although they are part of the common lexical background of all languages, the notions of technique and technology are very difficult to define or separate exactly. However, science and technology are considered as two parallel flows of knowledge that have interdependencies and mutual relations; they support each other in the processes of creation and innovation. From other perspectives, technology is defined as the practical application of knowledge, especially in a particular field; a way of performing a task, in particular using technical processes, methods or technical knowledge; a system of specialized aspects of a particular field of activity (e.g. communication technology, educational technology, medical technology, competitive technology, etc.). Management consulting firm Arthur D. Little (USA) proposed a classification of technologies into four classes, depending on the competitive impact, as follows: core technologies, key technologies, emerging technologies and embryonic technologies. Hybrid destructive emerging technologies is a phrase that suggests a range of new technologies, some with some continuity, with hybrid use, but whose applicability is mainly aimed at destructuring organizational and state systems and subsystems, in order to make them dysfunctional and enslaved. The phrase also suggests the knowledge and means necessary for the application of emerging technologies, as a systematized set of knowledge about human activities, which make use of scientific research results, experiments, calculations and projects, as well as appropriate tools for conducting research. Technological knowledge is built using scientific methods with wide applicability, but focused in the direction of dissolving, destructuring, blocking, threatening and subjugating the will of organizations considered hostile. Emerging destructive actions on the European Union are materialized, among other aspects, by the increasingly obvious manifestations in the European democratic climate, such as: ignoring and circumventing the constitutive acts, the lack of unanimity on migration issues, cultivating media uncertainty about the future of the European Union, intensifying steps specific toopen societies and the proselytism of civic forums. These are, in our view, not only forms of democratic slippage, but also directions of hybrid destructuring, both at Community and national level, as certain hybrid destructuring issues stem from anti-democratic slippages at Community level which canbe seen more clearly at national level.