BERLIN — Germany has swung behind a push from France to make Europe more reliant on its own technology companies, as the bloc’s two powerhouses come together for a meaningful effort to wean the bloc off American giants. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Tuesday acknowledged France may have a point in its years-long push to reduce dependence on American companies, just hours after an outage by a U.S. cloud computing company provided a timely reminder of the potential vulnerabilities. “We want