Europa / Europe and the EU + EEA

• Foreign technology companies cannot be entrusted with meeting Europe’s growing digital needs. This includes American big tech firms.
• Trump rarely hesitates to weaponise technological dependencies or attack the EU’s digital rules. A change of president in the future is unlikely to alter these dynamics.
• The EU should build an independent “stack” of technologies to shield itself from other powers weaponising tech against it. Building this “EuroStack” must begin where such risks are greatest, namely in the domains of space, chips, cloud computing and AI.
• The EU does not need to construct an entirely independent new tech ecosystem to strengthen its defences. Instead, it needs to build “just enough” capabilities in these key areas to extricate itself from its dependencies.
• American backlash against this effort is likely. But Europeans can make strategic concessions where necessary while keeping their eyes fixed on the sovereignty prize.