EU cloud sovereignty rules face defence pushback over US providers
European defence officials are pushing back against parts of the EU’s proposed Cloud and AI Development Act that would introduce stricter sovereignty requirements for cloud services used by military and other sensitive public-sector systems, according to the Financial Times.
The report said officials from several EU countries, including eastern and Nordic member states, are concerned that the provisions could restrict the use of US cloud providers for some high-security workloads.
The European Commission proposed the Cloud and AI Development Act, or CADA, in June. The proposal covers data-centre capacity, public-sector cloud procurement, and dependencies on non-European cloud and AI providers.
CADA introduces a four-level framework for assessing the sovereignty of cloud services used by EU institutions and public-sector organisations. The criteria cover infrastructure location, operational control, ownership, software supply chains, and exposure to third-country jurisdictions, with requirements becoming stricter at higher assurance levels.
Under Article 29, member states and...
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