- Foreign technology companies cannot be entrusted with meeting Europe’s growing digital needs. This includes American big tech firms.
- Trump rarely hesitates to weaponise technological dependencies or attack the EU’s digital rules. A change of president in the future is unlikely to alter these dynamics.
- The EU should build an independent “stack” of technologies to shield itself from other powers weaponising tech against it. Building this “EuroStack” must begin where such risks are greatest, namely in the domains of space, chips, cloud computing and AI.
- The EU does not need to construct an entirely independent new tech ecosystem to strengthen its defences. Instead, it needs to build “just enough” capabilities in these key areas to extricate itself from its dependencies.
- American backlash against this effort is likely. But Europeans can make strategic concessions where necessary while keeping their eyes fixed on the sovereignty prize.
get over your X
Seriously, just switch to Wayland already xD
Even Germany is showing some signs of movement ( https://deutschland-stack.gov.de/ , https://www.sovereign.tech/de/ ), so… I wouldnt be surprised for some pan-European initiative to be in the works.
There is - they’re working together with France, the Netherlands, and Italy: https://www.sovereign.tech/press/edic-digital-commons
We need fiscal independence as well. Wero should be rolled out to everyone, and all European passes must be mandated to primarily use Wero.
About a decade late, but I guess all it took was a second Trump presidency to open their eyes. It will take another right-wing presidency to really rub it in, otherwise it will be straight back to “business as normal”. People would just sigh a breath of relief and be lulled into a false sense of security. “It was just a blip”.
Edit: all their socials are on US own networks.
I hope they will not be back to licking the isa boots once Trump is out
In Europe they have l’Amazôgne
And Jumelles!
l’Amazone
