EC’s Tech Sovereignty Package – UPDATE**
We circulated a blog with our preliminary reactions based on the leaked version of the EC’s European Tech Sovereignty Package on 29 May (see The Commission’s Tech Sovereignty Package). Now the final version is out (see https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_1187). We do not re-examine the whole document (hundreds of pages of sprawling Euro-speak). Our main focus is on […]
More Sovereignty Measurements…Towards a Meta-Framework?
Europe’s progress towards digital sovereignty needs DOING. Urgently. At speed. Not definitions. We need to fund it and build it. Still, measurements are what everyone is coming up with – there are a few out there and more on the way. How do they compare? Do we have too many already? Will we converge onto […]
Manage the Dependency, or Build the Autonomy?
A Response to CERRE on “European Preference” A new CERRE issue paper – The Role of ‘European Preference’ in Europe’s Economic Strategy (April 2026) – argues that Europe’s current slide towards “European preferences” as part of its new industrial policy toolkit is dangerous and outright harmful for Europe. The posture is ostensibly avuncular advice on […]
Measuring European Cloud Sovereignty
Schwarz Digits’ New Sovereign Stack Standard ES³ Builds on the EU’s Cloud Sovereignty Framework – both Align with EuroStack Principles Hannover, 21 April 2026 Hannover Messe, the largest industrial manufacturing trade show in Europe, is the shop window for European productivity. The word “sovereignty” was everywhere on the first day, and for a reason: there […]
Tech Sovereignty needs demand – to get supply right
Co-authored by Cristina Caffarra & Anne Sohns The battle cry of last week’s Rebuilding Europe’s Sovereignty was “Europe is a superpower, it’s on us, we are BUILDING”. Powering up Europe’s tech muscle is now the recognised imperative to improve productivity growth, leveraging defence, manufacturing, our exciting industrial AI ecosystem (plus energy and services); in addition […]
The DC-EDIC as a Strategic Ally to EuroStack
Mobilizing “Digital Commons” for European Industrial Sovereignty The launch of the Digital Commons EDIC (DC-EDIC) by France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Italy last week in The Hague is a welcome recognition of digital sovereignty as a key goal for Europe, hopefully beyond promises and speeches (Digital Commons EDIC launches to advance Europe’s technological sovereignty | […]
A foundation to BUILD: the EuroStack Initiative takes shape
Europe has been discussing the need for digital sovereignty, but real progress has been slow. While regulation such as the Digital Markets Act and the AI Act reflected a political direction, Europe still depends on a handful of overseas technology providers for most of its core digital infrastructure. The EuroStack Initiative Foundation aims to join […]
EuroStack: Enough Contemplation, but also Enough Straw Mannerism
A recent blogpost by the Berlin Global GovTech Centre (background unclear, Capgemini one of only two mentioned “founding members”) laments that “Europe’s digital future (is) caught up in endless definitional loops”, and “debates around the two terms of ‘digital sovereignty’ and ‘Euro Stack’ dominate European policy circles, yet they have become increasingly trapped in endless […]