Articles
Magical Thinking Won’t Make Europe an AI Power
Project Syndicate
As long as the European Union remains dependent on a handful of US tech companies, its ambitions to become a global leader in AI will remain out of reach. In today’s geopolitical landscape, strategic autonomy is defined by ownership and control of critical infrastructure.
4 March 2026
The European summit in Berlin offers the opportunity to leave the theoretical debates on "digital sovereignty" behind in order to finally get into action. Because what is needed now is obvious.
Ahead of today’s European Digital Sovereignty Summit, it is clear that moving technology components and skills back to European soil, building the means to meet our own digital infrastructure needs (from chips to cloud, computing, connectivity and software to the AI stack) and strengthening resilience – all of this is essential for Europe.
19 November 2025
The New Geoeconomics of Hard Power Requires New Tools. Will Europe Update?
Europe is acutely aware it has fallen behind competitively, but it is struggling to find a way to recover lost ground. Cristina Caffarra writes that Europe did not find any inspiration in the American anti-monopoly movement, which underpinned the whole-of-government approach of the Biden administration. It is also faltering in developing a response to the vigorous array of tools deployed by the Trump administration to assert power at home and on the world stage. It does not need to be this way, as Europe has tremendous assets and capabilities. But it needs investment and leadership, boldness and experimentation in vision and policy design. Policymakers are beginning to see the urgency, but there is still too much narrow defensive posturing by regulators sticking to their patch.
5 November 2025
For Digital Competition, Antitrust and Regulation are ‘Small Ball.’ What Matters is Infrastructure
A debate has been raging amongst liberal elites in the United States over the last six months over the thesis put forward in Abundance, a best-selling book by columnists Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, which aims to set out a new agenda for a lost Democratic party. Essentially, the thesis is that the US is trapped in an economic malaise of low wages, high rents and bad healthcare, the legacy of a neoliberal world with too many rules and regulations that stifle America’s vitality and drive to “build” new and better.
2 October 2025
Digital sovereignty: Europe must offer an incisive and pragmatic approach
OPINION. Europe has become a digital colony, dependent on the American cloud giants. This dependence weakens its technological sovereignty and security. Yet talent, innovation, and solutions already exist on the continent. All that is missing is a strong industrial vision, an ambitious public order and confidence in our own capabilities to build European digital autonomy. By Cristina Caffara, Stefane Fermigier and Yann Lechelle (*)
13 June 2025
“EuroStack”: How Europe Can Compete in Tech
For the last decade and a half, Europe focused on “taming Big Tech” — trying to address “anti-competitive practices” by US tech giants through antitrust and regulation. None of it has worked. No European business has been elevated or turned into a success story by promises of antitrust and regulation creating a “level playing field.”
1 June 2025
