Policy Brief: The closing window for financial sovereignty
Europe holds nearly everything it needs to compete in the next phase of digital finance. What has been missing is not capability, but action. Our latest policy brief, Making Euro(pe) Competitive: the closing window for financial sovereignty, sets out a concrete plan for how Europe can compete on its own terms. Alongside it, we are […]
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: […]
Policy Brief: Digital Identity as the Foundation of European Sovereignty
Digital identity is the first line of defence in digital sovereignty Without controlling how you prove who you are, the exercise of every other digital right is contingent on the governance choices of whoever controls the infrastructure. Despite significant steps in the right direction like eIDAS 2.0, the Swiss eID Act and the UK digital […]
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 […]
Response to Call for Evidence: Open Digital Ecosystems Strategy
Following the call for evidence by the European Commission on Open Digital Ecosystems, the European Decentralisation submitted its reply. This call is timely and very relevant as Europe is seeking to become digitally sovereign. As European Decentralisation Institute we earlier published our Policy brief on this topic with very clear and actionable recommendations. We are […]
Position Paper: Rebalancing Digital Power in Finance
On 4 December 2025, the European Commission presented its Market Integration Package for EU financial markets. At the European Decentralisation Institute, we see this as a real step forward. The package:🔹 Treats distributed ledger technology as core market infrastructure, not a side experiment🔹 Scales up the DLT Pilot so tokenisation can reach meaningful size🔹 Moves […]
Policy Brief: 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 […]
Response to Consultation: European Data Protection Board
Our reaction to the public consultation European Data Protection Board Executive Summary The European Data Protection Board’s (EDPB) “Guidelines 02/2025 on Processing of Personal Data through Blockchain Technologies” aim to align blockchain systems with the GDPR. However, these guidelines risk undermining Europe’s digital sovereignty by mischaracterising blockchain as a traditional IT service model rather than […]
Manifesto: Towards a thriving and equitable digital society and economy
Europe’s biggest challenges, from digital sovereignty and trustworthy AI to sustainable supply chains, are fundamentally problems of coordination. We call for decentralised digital infrastructure that enables peer-to-peer collaboration while embedding European values such as liberty, equality, and solidarity directly into protocols and governance models. Rather than relying on centralised control, we believe open standards, privacy-preserving […]
