Europe needs digital sovereignty against US tech dominance

The position holds that Europe needs its own digital sovereignty to escape dependence on US technology dominance. Its advocates call for reining in Big Tech, enforcing European rules on gatekeeper platforms, building sovereign cloud capacity and keeping a level playing field, and they treat the rule of law as the tool for doing so.

The position appears in coverage of transatlantic tech regulation and digital sovereignty, where 29 publishers from Western and allied countries carry it across 128 matched events. It is stated as a European aim in a dispute with US companies and, in places, with the US government.

The material names no competing position, but the companies concerned answer it directly. Google warned that its search results in Europe will get worse as it complies with the EU's gatekeeper rules, Palantir's chief executive said French restrictions on US software are backfiring, and Elon Musk criticised EU rules at the G20. The events of recent months show enforcement continuing: the EU fined Google 890 million euros under the Digital Markets Act, the EU's top court upheld a 4.1 billion euro fine, Apple lost its challenge to app store rules, and ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox were placed under the strictest online rules.