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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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[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It would be so great if the world actually had the resolve to pull that off.

It is what should happen but I am not holding my breath.