Digital Sovereignty for Europe

Digital technology has become a question of power. Cloud infrastructure, semiconductors, artificial intelligence, data and the platforms that shape public opinion are now instruments of geopolitical influence - and for most of them Europe depends on others. This book asks what digital sovereignty really means and how Europe can achieve it without closing itself off from the world. Tomasz Klekowski maps Europe's dependencies across the entire technology stack, Alina Bârgaoanu analyses technological sovereignty as the architecture of influence, and Jochen M. Richter compares the European and American approaches. Their common conclusion is clear: no Member State can achieve digital sovereignty alone. Only by turning twenty-seven national strategies into one shared European effort - pooling capital, talent, demand and political will - can Europe secure its freedom to decide in the digital age.