Rather than providing robust protection for cloud capacities, the EU again went soft on the US, falling far short of sovereignty
Tech is Europe’s fastest-growing sector and is essential to the bloc’s prosperity. So you’d have thought it would be protected vigorously.
The need for robust guards has already been made clear as the US and China have leveraged the EU’s technological dependencies, with plenty of examples of this in the last year alone. In October 2025, China’s ban on chips nearly brought the German automotive industry to a halt.
Then there were the sanctions imposed last May by the Trump administration on judges of the International Criminal Court, which highlighted the risk of a potential ‘kill switch’ scenario, whereby the US government could disrupt entire segments of the EU economy by issuing sanctions orders to American companies to deny access to their IT services.
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