Cloud Sovereignty as a Driver of EU Policy

As part of a broader discussion of European “digital” sovereignty, some in Brussels are calling for a “sovereign” European cloud. Such calls stem from long-standing concerns about Europe’s widespread dependency on foreign IT service providers, including U.S. providers of cloud computing services. In this article, we look at what it means for a cloud computing service to be “European.” We also explain what “digital sovereignty” means as a policy objective, by looking at how the