Why Digital Sovereignty pursued as control risks deepening Europe’s fragmentation
Europe is debating digital sovereignty as though the central question were who owns the infrastructure. The more consequential question is whether European firms can move across systems freely, securely, and without lock-in. In a new EDI Perspective, Konstantinos Komaitis, PhD argues that the sovereignty debate has drifted away from the oldest ambition of European integration: […]
Europe cannot procure its way to digital sovereignty
“Buy European” sounds strategic. It isn’t. Procurement nationalism is the feel-good answer to Europe’s digital dependence. Write a bigger cheque to a European-headquartered supplier, and sovereignty will follow. Except it doesn’t. A European vendor running on non-European cloud, chips and legal exposure is not sovereignty. It is sovereignty cosplay. In a new EDI perspective, Roman […]
