theconversation.com ‘Digital sovereignty’: why the EU may be shifting from internet regulation to building homegrown tech
A summit on the future of the European digital sector comes after a shift in how Brussels sees its role.
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Following ... Trump’s win [in the US presidential election last year], and amid the first year of the new US administration, members of the European parliament ... have swung towards the sovereignty paradigm with a new fervour, embracing an enforcement-focused legal “simplification” agenda that borders on deregulation, and supporting research for funding and policy proposals that would likely have seemed farfetched even two years ago. Ideas for public service media alternatives include an AI-powered “European News Streaming Platform”. And then there’s the EuroStack, an initiative for investment in Europe-based digital infrastructures.
The news platform is still somewhat speculative, but the EuroStack initiative has gained significant traction in Brussels. The EU commissioner for technological sovereignt