The missing ingredient for European tech sovereignty

[BRUSSELS] In early June, the European Commission unveiled its Tech Sovereignty Package, a new policy agenda designed to strengthen Europe’s strategic autonomy through investments in artificial intelligence, domestic semiconductor manufacturing, cloud infrastructure and open-source software.

While ambitious, the package is not enough. To ensure that AI and digital technologies advance the European Union’s economic and security interests requires confronting the root causes of Big Tech’s dominance over Europe’s digital economy.

The plan’s objective – to reduce the EU’s dependence on foreign technologies and, in turn, its vulnerability to external coercion – is laudable.