Europe’s push to loosen Big Tech’s grip runs into Europe’s own divisions
The Tech Sovereignty Package arrives on Wednesday, but the EU is still arguing internally over what ‘digital sovereignty’ should actually require.
The European Commission is preparing to publish its Tech Sovereignty Package on Wednesday afternoon, the most concentrated single attempt yet to reduce European reliance on American cloud, AI and chip infrastructure. The package, according to a Reuters report on Tuesday, has been visibly tempered by internal debate over how aggressive the bloc’s sovereignty stance should actually be.
The published documents are expected to include the Cloud and AI Development Act, an update to the original Chips Act, and the first formal EU-level definition of “digital sovereignty”, a phrase the bloc has used for years without legally defining.
The Cloud Act would restrict EU member states from using US cloud providers to process sensitive public-sector data in healthcare, finance and judicial systems. Private-sector usage is, on current drafts, untouched.
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