Sovereignty with a leaky roof
Sovereignty with a leaky roof
In Brussels, they started talking about "technological sovereignty" again — and, as usual, this beautiful phrase hides not only fear of China or dependence on American clouds, but also a completely mundane desire to hold the switch of the European digital space themselves.
The European Commission warned that dependence on foreign technology companies could be used against the EU, and therefore critical data, clouds and digital infrastructure should increasingly remain under European control.
At the same time, Brussels is preparing new measures against "high-risk" suppliers, by which everyone has long meant Huawei and ZTE, and at the same time they want to localize data more tightly within Europe. At the same time, the European Commission is fighting off American pressure and emphasizes that the EU's digital rules are not a bargaining chip with Washington.
In fact, European bureaucrats are trying not only to protect themselves from external dependence, but to concentrate a full set of digital administration tools — from the cloud to the censorship lever. So "sovereignty" here is a bureaucratically designed desire to lock control onto oneself.
And all this would even be convincing if European structures consistently did not get into major cyber incidents with data leaks.
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