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Europe gets serious about cutting digital umbilical cord with Uncle Sam's big tech (www.theregister.com)
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Europe’s quest for digital sovereignty is hampered by a 90 per cent dependency on US cloud infrastructure, claims Cristina Caffarra, a competition expert and a driving force behind the Eurostack initiative.

While Brussels champions policy initiatives and American tech giants market their own ‘sovereign’ solutions, a handful of public authorities in Austria, Germany, and France, alongside the International Criminal Court in The Hague, are taking concrete steps to regain control over their IT.

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[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Except it is happening in little pieces. You want a quick comprehensive solution, but that won't happen, but still some things have shifted and others will if leaders stay focused.

And the threat is clear. If Trump wants Greenland, what will western Europe do? The first step is to stabilize basic computer systems. Every military leader on the content understands this kind of fundamental weakness, and corruption is all around but doesn't control everything... If it did, we would not even see this post.

[–] DandomRude@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Yes, it's true: hope dies last. Perhaps our leaders will finally realize how dangerous it is to be absolutely dependent - and on such an unpredictable regime at that. Many Countries from the East understood the importance of digital sovereignty decades ago and have largely built up their own systems. In Europe, this has been prevented by massive lobbying, but perhaps something will really happen now that we are being blackmailed because of our self-inflicted dependence.