The Commission’s Tech Sovereignty Package Is (Nearly) Here. Early thoughts.

The Communication start with the recognition Europe is “structurally reliant on non-EU providers for over 80% of its digital products, services, infrastructure and intellectual property”, but directly echoes our focus on “growth” and capturing economic value along the stack as the main motivation – not just defensive “security” and “resilience”. It explicitly mentions “an accelerated shift in the EU’s posture from a reactive focus on resilience and risk mitigation to an assertive and proactive strategy”, based around building a “European technology stack” that “strengthens the EU’s capacity throughout the value chain”. With its “public money, public code” principle, its open-source-first mandate for public cloud and AI procurement under CADA, and its goal of 30 million active users for European collaboration tools by 2030, it appears the Commission is finally treating open source as strategic infrastructure rather than a footnote. The “public money, public code” principle, the recognition that the EU spends €264 billion annually – mostly on US proprietary IT – and the commitment to building European alternatives across the stack (from RISC-V semiconductors to operating systems to AI models) are all things we campaigned for. Until Europe’s public sector stops spending the vast majority of its digital budget on American providers, and until “Buy European” becomes more than a slogan, the risk remains that this package will not do as much as it could and will join the long list of well-intentioned European strategies that never translated into commercial-scale European alternatives. #EuroStack #TechSovereignty #CADA #ChipsAct #OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty #EuropeanTech #BuyEuropean #CloudSovereignty #EUPolicy Previous Next Share the Post: EC’s Tech Sovereignty Package – UPDATE** We circulated a blog with our preliminary reactions based on the leaked version of the EC’s European Tech Sovereignty Package More Sovereignty Measurements…Towards a Meta-Framework?