The energy grid and the larger story of Europe’s digital sovereignty

In June, the European Commission proposed the Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA). One passage in it captures what is at stake for Europe more clearly than most. Recital 50 warns that depending on a small number of providers controlled from outside the EU exposes Europe to “misuse (i.e. manipulation, remote access and control, sabotage, […]

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Reflections from Brussels, Utrecht and Paris

The European open source industry answers the moment The EU Tech Sovereignty Package, published on 3 June, put a question to the European open source industry before it put one to anyone else. The Commission’s Open Source Strategy and the Cloud and AI Development Act say, in effect, that open source can be Europe’s route […]

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The New EU Open Source Strategy is the Best in the World, but Where Should the Commission Start?

The co-legislative process on the Cloud and AI Development Act starts now. From here, the centre of gravity for CADA moves to the Council and the Parliament, where the binding text will be negotiated, amended, and argued over line by line. That is where a great deal of attention will rightly go, including ours. But […]

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