Choice, compliance, and collaboration: Europe’s path to open digital sovereignty
The European Commission’s Tech Sovereignty Package comes at a defining moment for the continent's digital future. European competitiveness and security are top of the agenda for European business, institutions, and citizens, and a significant investment in European digital capacity is needed to deliver those goals. In that context, it is understandable that Europe is considering how to boost the European Union digital footprint from chips, to cloud adoption, to AI data infrastructure.
The European Commission’s strategy is to be grounded in "openness, partnership, and fair competition." Indeed, the package contains bold measures consistent with these principles on interoperability to address vendor lock-in and an open source strategy for the public sector, as well as on more rapid data center deployment.
We will work cooperatively with the EU institutions providing our best knowledge about how to achieve these stated objectives in practical terms. To that end, we believe certain elements of...
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