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By Toby Sterling

AMSTERDAM, June 5 (Reuters) - The CEO of top European tech ‌firm ASML on Friday welcomed most ‌proposals made by the EU Commission this week ​to improve Europe's tech sovereignty but cautioned against plans for its involvement in steering or monitoring "strategic projects" eligible for state ‌aid.

Such projects "fundamentally ⁠need to respond to the needs of industry" and are better ⁠off left to firms to propose, Christopher Fouquet said in a LinkedIn post.

"We ​need to ​avoid the ​risk of over-complication and ‌bureaucracy, while relying on private sector expertise," Fouquet said.

Fouquet’s remarks are among the first from a leading figure in European industry to the package, which is ‌the centrepiece of Brussels’ ​plan to close the ​bloc’s technology ​gap with the United States ‌and Asia.

The plan includes ​measures to ​stimulate demand for European-made chips and local cloud services. Fouquet said the ​Commission's new ‌focus on demand-driven policy is a ​positive development.

(Reporting by Toby Sterling; Editing ​by Joe Bavier)