Europe Can Reclaim Digital Sovereignty Through Decentralisation

Europe excels at writing digital rules, yet much of its backbone such as cloud, payments, identity, AI, etc. runs on non-European, highly centralised infrastructure. A new policy brief by the European Decentralisation Institute sets out a practical strategy for Europe to regain control over its digital foundations. Entitled “Rebalancing Europe’s Digital Power: Decentralisation as a […]

Looking back at a successful inaugural roundtable in Brussels

It’s official! With our inaugural high-level roundtable yesterday we officially launched the European Decentralisation Institute. In collaboration with our partner The Lisbon Council we convened senior policymakers, experts, and industry leaders from across Europe to discuss how decentralisation can turn sovereignty from ambition into capability. Here are the 5 Key Takeaways:1️⃣ The Sovereignty Gap – […]

2025-26 Roadmap: Five critical areas shaping digital sovereignty

The European Decentralisation Institute is an independent, non-profit think tank dedicated to advancing decentralisation as a strategic foundation for a sovereign digital Europe -EDI mission statement How We Turn Ideas into Impact At the European Decentralisation Institute, our work starts with a simple but vital question:Where does decentralisation truly make a difference? We engage directly […]

The European Decentralisation Institute receives grant from Ethereum Foundation

  🙏 We are grateful to the Ethereum Foundation for supporting our work through a grant. We are an independent, non-profit think tank but can not do this alone. We use this grant to set up the organisation and to prepare for our first policy brief and roundtable discussion. The Ethereum Foundation has no direct […]