European “AI Maximalists” (and their Masters) Worry About EuroStack
A recent piece in Foreign Policy (Europe Will Never Be an AI Superpower) rehashes all the trite wisdom of the European “AI maximalists” who essentially recommend Europe further resigns itself to being just a “middle power” and deepens its abnegation – as tech vassal and colony – in the name of getting access to the […]
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 […]
The Commission’s Tech Sovereignty Package Is (Nearly) Here. Early thoughts.
A Communication on the long-awaited EC Tech Sovereignty Package was leaked this week. A sprawling set of initiatives including the Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA), Chips Act 2.0, an Open Source Strategy, and an energy-sector roadmap. It is the most ambitious digital-industrial policy package Brussels ever produced. How does it fare? Europe, notoriously, endlessly […]
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 […]
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 […]